R4D Experts

David de Ferranti, President (and founder) of Results for Development, has over thirty years of experience in leadership and senior management positions in the public and private sector, chiefly in the fields of international development and, earlier, U.S. public policy.

Kanika Bahl is a Principal and Managing Director at Results for Development Institute (R4D), with a focus on market-based solutions for development. She leads R4D’s work on increasing affordable and reliable access to high-quality health and nutrition commodities through active engagement with private sector manufacturers, countries, and major global financiers.

Nicholas Burnett is a Principal and Managing Director at R4D, leading our Education group. Prior to joining our team, he served as Assistant Director-General for Education at the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (UNESCO).

Robert Hecht is a Principal and Managing Director at R4D, with extensive background in health and development policy. His current portfolio covers AIDS costs and financing, immunization policy, and innovative approaches to global health R&D.

Gina Lagomarsino

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.
 

Marty Makinen is a Principal and Managing Director at R4D, with a focus on health financing and human resources for health. Marty leads the Ministerial Leadership Initiative, the work with the Global Health Workforce Alliance, the Capacity Project, and the Agence Française de Développement.

Jean Arkedis

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

 

Amanda Folsom is a Program Director at R4D. She focuses on health financing, health systems strengthening and capacity building.

Dennis de Tray is a Principal at R4D. His interests include institution and capacity building in fragile states and unconventional aid, development assistance delivered through non-ODA channels. He has worked most recently with the US Department of Defense on the governance and development aspects of counterinsurgency and with the Government of Kazakhstan to create a world-class English language teaching and research university in Astana.

Stephanie Sealy is a Program Director at R4D. She focuses on health systems strengthening and private health sector financing and delivery mechanisms.

Courtney Tolmie is a Program Director at R4D for its Governance and Accountability work, including the Transparency and Accountability Program (TAP) and the Strengthening Institutions program (a joint effort with the Global Development Network).

Julian Schweitzer

Julian Schweitzer is a Principal at the Results for Development Institute (R4D). Prior to joining R4D, Julian had a distinguished career at the World Bank. He has over thirty years of development experience with a focus on human development, and he has lived and worked in Asia, Latin America, Africa and East and Central Europe

Dr. Inder Sud is a Principal of the Results for Development Institute. He has nearly 40 years of very broad experience in virtually all aspects of development. He has had assignments the world over, but his most extensive work was in East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, and Middle East and North Africa.

Audrey McIntyre is an R4D Senior Fellow and a consultant specializing in global health market dynamics. She is an active adviser to R4D’s growing Market Dynamics practice as well as a consultant to other global health organizations, including the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and the Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge (I-MAK). 

Kenneth S. Apfel is a Senior Fellow at Results for Development. He is a professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and has served as the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration and other executive capacities at both the Office of Management and Budget and the US Department of Health and Human Services.

William D. Savedoff is a Senior Advisor at R4D and a Partner at Social Insight. Dr. Savedoff works on questions related to improving the accessibility and quality of social services in developing countries. His primary expertis relates to aligning incentives for better provision of services through changes in institutions, organizations, contractual arrangements and payments.

Birger Fredriksen is a leading expert on the development of education in developing countries. Before retiring, he worked for 20 years in the World Bank including as Director for Human Development for Africa, and 12 years in the OECD and UNESCO. He now contributes as an adviser on education to several institutions.

Davidson Gwatkin is a Senior Fellow at R4D and a Senior Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He serves as an adviser on health and poverty to UNICEF, and other agencies.

Dean Jamison is a Senior Fellow at R4D and specializes in the areas of economic theory, public health, and education.

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

Stephen Resch is a Senior Technical Advisor at the Results for Development Institute. His primary research interests are health resource allocation, operational efficiency of health care service delivery, and the adaptation of decision analytic methods to important public health challenges.

Alan Ruby has 40 years experience in education and human development. He currently serves as a program director in international education development at the University of Pennsylvania and is a member of the higher education division.

Helen Saxenian is a senior consultant at R4D and coordinating the Review of GAVI Alliance Eligibility Policies project. She has eighteen years of experience, in both technical and managerial capacities, at the World Bank, primarily in the health sector. Her work in recent years has focused on vaccine finance issues.

Richard Skolnik has been involved in international development since the early 1970s and has played important roles in global health for almost 25 years.
 

David C. Stevens is currently collaborating with the Results for Development Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based not-for-profit, on two projects. One is Affinity MacroFinance, the proposed emerging market financial guarantee initiative described herein. The other is a small and medium size enterprise (SME) development program for Africa.

Paul Wilson is a scientist and economist working to bring new drugs and vaccines to developing countries.

Featured Project

R4D, in partnership with RAND Corporation and Economist Intelligence Unit, is leading an indicator scoping exercise to identify a set of indicators to monitor and evaluate the role of private sector provision of health related goods and services to fulfill the needs of the World Bank's Flagship Report, The Business of Health in Africa.