Ruth Levine
Ruth Levine, who leads the Center's work on global health and population issues, is a health economist with 12 years of experience working on health and family planning financing issues in Latin America, Eastern Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. At CGD, she sets priorities and manages problems that use research to address practical policy challenges. Ruth manages the Global Health Policy Research Network, and is one of the Center’s experts on global health and population issues. In addition, she served as lead technical staff on the UN Millennium Projects Education and Gender Equality Task Force. Before joining the Center, Ruth designed, supervised, and evaluated health sector loans at the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Ruth also conducted research on the health sector, and led the World Bank’s knowledge management activities in health economics and finance between 1999 and 2002. Between 1997 and 1999, she served as the advisor on the social sectors in the Office of the Executive Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank. Ruth has a 1990 doctoral degree from Johns Hopkins University, has published on health and family planning finance topics, and is the co-author of the books, The Health of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (World Bank, 2001), Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health (CGD, 2004), and Making Markets for Vaccines: Ideas to Action (CGD, 2005).
Owen Barder
Owen is a Senior Program Associate with the Center for Global Development and is currently managing the Advance Market Commitment working group. He previously served as the Director of Information, Communications, and Knowledge for the UK Department for International Development (DFID), and was the Head of Africa Policy for the same organization. He has also served as Private Secretary to the Prime Minister (Economic Affairs) and in the UK Treasury, where he was seconded to the South African Treasury during 1997-1999. Owen has a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Economics at Oxford and a Masters from the London School of Economics.