He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University and a Bachelor’s degree from Yale University. He has two children, a daughter and a son, and lives near Washington, DC, USA.

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.

Gina Lagomarsino is a Principal and Managing Director at Results for Development Institute (R4D) with a focus on health system design and financing. She leads work aimed at expanding health coverage in low and middle income countries, with a particular interest in how to create vibrant health markets that include high-quality, innovative private care providers that are accessible to people regardless of income.

Gina leads the Center for Health Market Innovations, which has discovered more than 1000 innovative programs with potential to improve quality and affordability of care for the poor in 110 countries, and is now working to facilitate the scale-up of successful programs. Gina is also one of the founders, and f leads the Secretariat, of the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage, a network of policymakers in low and middle income countries working to accelerate the successful adoption of national health insurance reforms.

Prior to joining R4D, Gina was Senior Health Policy Advisor to Washington, DC Mayor Anthony Williams, where she worked to reform the health system of the District of Columbia. She designed and implemented a managed care reform of a public health insurance program serving low-income DC residents. She also spearheaded the District’s effort to implement the Medical Homes initiative to expand and improve the quality of private community health centers.

Prior to her work in government, Gina was an engagement manager in the Healthcare Practice of McKinsey & Company, where she advised senior executives of health insurance and hospital organizations on strategy and operations. She also worked for Kaiser Permanente, a private integrated financing and delivery system, based in the state of California, where she implemented a new model of primary care at a large multi-specialty medical center and served as a market research consultant for Kaiser insurance products.

Gina received a Master's in Business Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelor's degree in Public Policy from Stanford 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.