Dennis de Tray began working on development issues at the RAND Corporation, a U.S.-based think tank. After 12 years with RAND, Dr. de Tray joined the World Bank to take over management of the Bank’s Living Standard Measurement Survey. Following the successful launch of LSMS, he became the Bank’s Research Administrator, overseeing its centrally funded research. In 1992 he moved from research to the Bank’s operations complex, and, in 1997, became the first decentralized country director for Indonesia. Dr. de Tray has worked and lived in a number of developing countries, including Vietnam, as the IMF Senior Representative, and in Kazakhstan as the World Bank’s country director for the five Central Asian Republics. After 23 years at the Bank, 12 of them in the field, he joined the Center For Global Development, a Washington-based think tank, as the Center’s first Vice President.

He is now a Principal with the Results for Development Institute. His recent and ongoing projects include work on Southern Africa and with the governments of Kazakhstan and Timor-Leste on strategic planning.

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Kanika Bahl is a Principal and Managing Director at Results for Development Institute (R4D), where she established and leads the Market Dynamics practice.

R4D’s Market Dynamics practice has developed strategies to achieve over a billion dollars in efficiency savings and ensure sustainable availability of high-quality products to address malnutrition, AIDS, malaria, and neglected diseases . In this role, Kanika has successfully engaged with Fortune 500 companies, major global financiers including the Global Fund and the Gates Foundation, and country governments across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Her work has been cited in various international publications including The Guardian and Huffington Post, and she is a frequent speaker at leading business institutions including Stanford, Harvard, Wharton, and Kellogg.   Kanika recently co-chaired the Market-Shaping group for the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children. 

Prior to R4D, Kanika served as an Executive Vice President at the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative (CHAI), where she worked from 2005-2010. While there, she helped build and lead the $400 million, 33 country UNITAID program which reduced prices on HIV/AIDS drugs by 80% for over 2 million global patients.  She also served as Africa Regional Director, launching and managing CHAI’s presence in 19 sub-Saharan African countries. Prior to CHAI, Kanika led market-based approaches to international development across a variety of sectors including technology, infrastructure, and financial services. She worked at Voxiva, Bechtel Enterprises and the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a leading microfinance organization.

Kanika received her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and her BA in Mathematical Economics from Rice University.

Davidson Gwatkin is a Senior Fellow at the Results for Development Institute, and a Senior Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He serves as an adviser on health and poverty to the World Bank, UNICEF, and other agencies. From 2000-03, he was the World Bank’s Principal Health and Poverty Specialist. Before joining the Bank, he had directed the International Health Policy Program, a cooperative effort between two American foundations, the World Bank, and the World Health Organizations to strengthen health policy research capacity in Africa and Asia. He had previously been with the Ford Foundation in New Delhi, New York, and Lagos; and with the Overseas Development Council in Washington, D.C.

Robert Hecht joined Results for Development in April 2008, and is currently managing a growing portfolio of projects analyzing policy barriers and solutions related to AIDS and health financing and improving R&D and access to new health technologies in developing countries.

Before coming to Results for Development, he spent four years as vice president for Policy and Advocacy at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. Prior to this, he had a 20 year tenure at the World Bank, where he occupied a number of senior posts including manager of the Bank's central unit for Health, Nutrition, and Population, with oversight for global strategies, knowledge, technical services, and partnerships; chief of operations for the Human Development Network; principal economist in the Latin America region, and member of the core team and a lead author of the 1993 World Development Report, "Investing in Health." From 1987 to 1996, he was responsible for World Bank sponsored studies and projects in health in Africa and Latin America, most notably in Zimbabwe and Argentina.

He served as a director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) from 1998 to 2001, where he managed technical units based in South Africa, Cote d'Ivoire, and Thailand, as well as in Geneva. He led UNAIDS efforts to portray AIDS as a development and poverty issue impacting a wide range of social and economic goals, and published a number of papers advancing this view.

He is the author of more than 30 articles and other publications. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale and his doctorate from Cambridge University.

William McGreevey is an Associate Professor at the Department of International Health, School of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown University where he teaches on the political economy of health and development. He is also a consulting economist providing services on international development and health issues to aids2031.

He has focused in recent years on strengthening health systems in developing countries, and on specific issues in the economics of HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. At the World Bank, 1980-97, he worked on poverty and living standards, urban, health, nutrition, and population projects, and managed training for Bank staff in these areas. He is an author or editor of three books and several dozen articles. He was chair of the Center for Latin American Studies and taught economic history at UC-Berkeley in the 1960s. Since coming to Washington DC in 1971, he has worked at the OAS, Smithsonian Institution, Battelle Memorial Institute, Population Council, World Bank, Futures Group, George Washington University, and Georgetown University.

He holds a Doctorate degree in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Economics with High Honors from Ohio State University.

Marty Makinen is the Results for Development Institute's Program Director for the Health Workforce and Ministerial Leadership Initiative. He is a health economist with more than 30 years of experience working with health financing and economics issues in developing countries. He spent 23 years at Abt Associates Inc. where he directed the USAID-funded global Health Systems 20/20, Partners for Health Reform plus, and Health Financing and Sustainability projects and has held academic positions at the Universities of Delaware and Michigan. Dr. Makinen has worked with more than 40 developing countries on practical solutions to health issues in all regions of the world, with specific emphasis on Francophone Africa and South Asia. He serves on the Monitoring Independent Review Committee for the Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunization. He is a native speaker of English and speaks fluent French. Dr. Makinen has numerous publications and speaks frequently at professional meetings. He holds a PhD (1979) and Master's (1975) in economics from the University of Michigan and a B.A. (1973) in economics from Kalamazoo College.

Jean Arkedis is the Project Director for the Center for Global Health R&D Policy Assessment project.

She joined R4D from the Clinton Health Access Initiative, where she launched and managed a portfolio of impact evaluations in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda to test innovative interventions to improve access, uptake and appropriate use of malaria treatment. Previously, she worked on aid reform and development programs in Africa at the State Department, USAID, and on a fellowship rotation to the Center for Global Development.

She has a masters degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) with a focus in International Economics and Development and a BA from Duke University.

Amanda Folsom has over 14 years of experience in global health policy, health systems, and health care financing. She is a Program Director at the Results for Development Institute (R4D) where she provides program management for the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN), a platform for exchange between countries implementing health financing reforms aimed at achieving universal health coverage.  Previously she led R4D’s work on the Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health (MLI), focusing on enhancing the capacity of ministries of health to effectively lead health care reforms,  and also participated in R4D’s technical work on private health sector assessments (Republic of Congo), policy translation, and the stewardship of mixed (public/private) health care systems.

Prior to joining R4D Ms. Folsom directed the AcademyHealth International Exchange Program, "Learning from Other Industrialized Health Systems," and worked on several complementary projects including the MacArthur Foundation initiative on the ethical recruitment of foreign-educated nurses, the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Knowledge Transfer program, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Coverage Initiatives.

Previously Ms. Folsom was Deputy Director for Program Evaluation and Legislation for the Maryland Medicaid program where she led several public program design, implementation, and evaluation efforts. She also worked with the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She served for two years as a U.S. Peace Corps community health volunteer in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Ms. Folsom is a graduate of the University of Virginia and holds a Masters in Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.