Speaker
Eduardo Gonzalez-Pier, PhD
Senior Technical Director of Health Finance at Palladium Group and Global Fellow at the Wilson Center
Palladium, Washington DC
Eduardo González-Pier is an economist with more than 25 years of experience in the health and social security sectors. He has contributed to the development of health policy in Mexico, including major reforms, from varied high-level positions at the Ministry of Health and the Mexican Institute of Social Security. His work focuses on providing sound evidence and analysis to inform policymaking and promoting the development of mechanisms and tools to improve health system performance.
Currently, he is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and Senior Technical Director of Health Financing at Palladium, both in Washington DC.
Former appointments include serving as Deputy Minister of Health of Mexico, Executive President of the Mexican Health
Foundation, Director General of the Medica Sur Clinical Foundation and Finance Director of the Mexican Institute of Social Security.
• Ph.D, economics, The University of Chicago
• M.A., economics, The University of Chicago
• B.S., engineering, economics, and mathematics, Washington and Lee University