Maureen Lewis has spent over 25 years advising government and private sector leaders around the world on health system reforms. Dr. Lewis has held a variety of management and leadership positions in global health, including Chief Economist for Human Development at the World Bank. She is the author of more than 75 research publications and working papers and five books, and is a member of numerous international organizations including the Council on Foreign Relations  Dr. Lewis speaks frequently for private, public and nonprofit audiences across the globe. She has a PhD in Economics from Johns Hopkins University.

Jerry La Forgia is a leader in global health and hospitals.  He was formerly Lead Health Specialist for China at the World Bank, leading the dialogue and analytic work for Vice-Premier Liu Yandong in the country’s healthcare reform agenda, as well as the World Bank’s Lead Health Specialist in India and Brazil. His major areas of research include hospital governance and management, quality of care, health insurance, and public-private partnerships for health service delivery. He has worked in these areas across Latin America, South Asia and East Asia. He has an Sc.D. in Health Service Administration from the University of Pittsburgh.

Anna Bonfert manages Aceso Global’s Latin America portfolio and supports technical research on health financing, hospital management, and quality. Before joining Aceso Global, she worked at the World Bank focusing on the design and implementation of impact evaluations. Her past work experience in health economics and financing also includes a transition readiness assessment in Brazil for the Global Fund and a research project on health insurance for informal sector workers for GIZ and the Indonesian Ministry of Health. She received a BSc in International Economics from the University of Tübingen in Germany and an MA in Global Human Development from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where she focused on health economics and finance. She has lived and worked in multiple Latin American countries, and speaks German, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Rob Janett maintains an active practice as a primary care physician at a multi-ethnic public clinic affiliated with the Cambridge Health Alliance.  He is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School as well as an adjunct assistant professor of family medicine at the Brown Alpert School of Medicine.  He consults on health policy issues to the World Bank and other agencies in the Latin America region, and to other healthcare organizations in the U.S.  For the past six years he has led primary care improvement projects in the Saúde Suplementar in Brazil. He is also Senior Policy Advisor at the Mount Auburn Cambridge Independent Practice Association (MACIPA). Until January 2016, he served as the Medical Director for Accountable Care at Care New England Health Systems in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Janett graduated from Haverford College where he studied social anthropology, and earned his medical degree at Dartmouth Medical School. He is board certified in the specialty of internal medicine.

Giota Panopoulou is a health economist with over 15 years of professional experience in public health sector institutional restructuring; health system financing; inclusion of pharmaceuticals in public drug formularies and pharmaceutical price negotiations; hospital performance; and design, implementation and evaluation of health reforms. She is currently the Director of Project Planning and Promotion at the Medica Sur Clinical Foundation. Previously she served as an advisor to the Undersecretary of Health in the Mexican Ministry of Health, where she led work on risk-sharing/outcome-based schemes for high-cost drugs across government and the pharmaceutical sector and on performance-based ranking of public hospitals. Dr. Panopoulou has also worked at the Mexican Health Foundation, an influential health policy think tank; as advisor to the CFO of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS); and as a Health Economist at the World Bank in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and the Europe and Central Asia regions. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Sussex.

Esteban Bermúdez researches global healthcare systems with a focus on efficiency, quality, and management training in the pursuit of Universal Health Coverage. He supports an array of project teams, including providing technical support for Aceso Global’s work on Population Targeting mechanisms and e-Consultations rollout for the Joint Learning Network (JLN). He also supports Aceso Global’s work on reducing health equity gaps faced by those living in extreme poverty in the Salud Mesoamérica Initiative -- focused on Quality Improvement mechanisms and training in Honduras. Prior to joining Aceso, Esteban interned at GreenMomentum (NGO) in Mexico City, Mexico where he provided research support for the Market Intelligence Team. He holds a double bachelor’s degree in Economics and International Relations from The College of William & Mary. He speaks Spanish and Italian.