Anne Martin-Staple, Ph.D.

Anne is the founder and President of Heath Strategies International. She has over 20 years experience in health sector finance, costing analysis, policy reform and capacity development. She has extensive international health care consulting experience with a focus on finance issues related to HIV/AIDs. She has been a consultant and project manager for WHO, the World Bank, Abt Associates, DFID, US AID, Family Health International, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and PATH. She has been on the faculty at Duke University and was for three years a visiting Lecturer at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International Relations. She is currently a Research Scholar at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. She received her PhD from the London School of Economics.

Rubi H. Sugana, BSc, MPA

Rubi has over 15 years experience in financial analysis, tax and government expenditure modeling for developing countries. He has worked for governments and development agencies in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Rubi serves as lecturer for the Duke Center for International Development providing training for government executives in financial management, financial modeling, policy analysis and revenue planning. He received his BSc in civil engineering from the Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia and his MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Leslie J.R. Pean PhD

Dr. Pean works extensively with the World Bank including a current role with the World Bank's Extension Services in Haiti acting as Vice-President in charge of the Management and Finance Committee which carries out projects to increase privatized services in Haiti. He was a Senior Economist with the World Bank since 1987 working in social sector projects to promote private sector participation and institutional reform. He has had extensive experience with bilateral and multi-lateral donors putting togther partnership programs with private sectors. He also organized a public-private partnership initiative at the World Bank in April 1998 with the collaboration of the Corporate Council on Africa. He speaks French, Spanish and Haitian Creole as well as several other languages.

Jerry VanSant PhD

Dr. VanSant is a management and organization specialist with 25 years experience as an executive manager and consultant to private firms, non-profit organizations and government agencies. He has provided planning, management, and information support to development programs in every region worldwide including regional director of a national NGO development program in Indonesia. His focus with HSI is on developing public-private partnerships and policy leadership consulting.

Nuria Homedes M.D., Dr. PH.,

Dr. Homedes has over 20 years experience in international health administration and finance. She has extensive country experience, language skills and consulting expertise in health management, clinical practice, program design, policy analysis and needs assessment. She has been a World Bank Public Health Specialist for 5 years working in health sector reform, child and maternal health, integrated primary health care and finance projects. Dr. Homedes is a renown professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Texas-Houston, School of Public Health.