Experts

Jim Buchan has worked as a policymaker, policy analyst, and consultant on health workforce and health systems issues in Europe, Asia and the Pacific. His background includes periods working for: the National Health Service in Scotland, the Royal College of Nursing, Health Workforce Australia, and the European Region of the World Health Organization (WHO). He is also Editor in Chief of the Human Resources for Health journal.

Greta Bull is the CEO of CGAP and a Director at the World Bank. Ms. Bull has 20 years’ experience in development finance, primarily focused on SME finance, microfinance and digital financial services. She has worked with financial services providers and policy makers in Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Her clients have included banks, microfinance institutions, mobile network operators, and fintechs. Before joining CGAP, she was a manager at the IFC.

Philip Bunn is a Senior Technical Advisor at the Bank of England where he has worked since 2001. He currently works in the Structural Economics Division in the Monetary Analysis area of the Bank on a mix of policy and research work. He is the Programme Director of the Decision Maker Panel survey.  He holds a BSc and MSc in economics from the University of Warwick.

Simon Burgess is a Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol. Simon is a labour economist. He completed his PhD in Oxford in 1987 with Steve Nickell. His current research interests are in the economics of education, including teacher effectiveness, pupil effort, school admissions, and market-based education reforms (such as school performance tables, school accountability, choice and competition). He also works on ethnic segregation in schools, and the educational performance of minority

She is a PhD candidate in Health Policy at Harvard and research affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Her research is in health economics and public finance. Her primary research focuses on productivity and allocation of resources within public health care systems

Dr. Richard Butler is Emeritus Professor of Tourism and has acted as consultant for numerous public and private sector agencies and held visiting professorships in Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Italy Hong Kong and the Netherlands. He has published 28 books and over 200 papers and chapters in books. His main research areas are destination development, sustainability, overtourism, indigenous tourism, and tourism in peripheral areas. In 2016 he was awarded the UNWTO Ulysses medal for ‘excellence