About Us

Staff

image of Frank J. Chaloupka, Ph.D. — Frank J. Chaloupka, Ph.D.
Founder

image of Jeffrey Drope, Ph.D. — Jeffrey Drope, Ph.D.
Director

Amit Summan, Ph.D.

Economist

image of Ana Mugoša, Ph.D. — Ana Mugoša, Ph.D.
Senior Economist

image of Anita Bontu, MPH — Anita Bontu, MPH
Deputy Director

image of Carlos M. Guerrero-López, Msc — Carlos M. Guerrero-López, Msc
Senior Health Economist

image of Germán Rodriguez-Iglesias, MSc — Germán Rodriguez-Iglesias, MSc
Senior Economist

Jennifer Osborne

Administrative Project Specialist

image of Margaret Dorokhina, MPH, MA (c) — Margaret Dorokhina, MPH, MA (c)
Director of Communications and Content Management

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Senior Grants and Contracts Analyst

image of Sam Sturm, Ph.D. — Sam Sturm, Ph.D.
Economist

image of Saw Min Thu Oo, MPH, MS — Saw Min Thu Oo, MPH, MS
Research Analyst

Sehr Malik, MHS, MA

Senior Research Data Analyst

image of Tatiana Villacrés, Ph.D., MA, MSc — Tatiana Villacrés, Ph.D., MA, MSc
Economist

Think Tank Project Directors

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Centro de Investigación Económica y Presupuestaria A.C.
Mexico

Ali Chalak, Ph.D.

American University of Beirut
Lebanon

Ángel López Nicolás, Ph.D.

Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
Spain

image of Anh Ngoc Nguyen, Ph.D. — Anh Ngoc Nguyen, Ph.D.
Development and Policies Research Center
Vietnam

image of Dewa Wisana, Ph.D. — Dewa Wisana, Ph.D.
Center for Indonesia's Strategic Development Initiatives
Indonesia

image of Dragan Gligorić, Ph.D. — Dragan Gligorić, Ph.D.
University of Banja Luka
Bosnia and Herzegovina

image of Drini Imami, Ph.D. — Drini Imami, Ph.D.
Development Solutions Associates
Albania

image of Fernando Masi, MA — Fernando Masi, MA
Centro de Análisis y Difusión de la Economía Paraguaya
Paraguay

image of José Angelo Costa do Amor Divino, Ph.D. — José Angelo Costa do Amor Divino, Ph.D.
Universidade Católica de Brasília
Brazil

image of Martin Hudcovský, Ph.D. — Martin Hudcovský, Ph.D.
Institute of Economic Research of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Slovakia

image of Mirjana Čizmović, Ph.D. — Mirjana Čizmović, Ph.D.
Institute of Socio-Economic Analysis
Montenegro

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Social Policy and Development Centre
Pakistan

image of Nihaya Al-sheyab, Ph.D. — Nihaya Al-sheyab, Ph.D.
Jordan University of Science and Technology
Jordan

image of Sara Elgazzar, Ph.D. — Sara Elgazzar, Ph.D.
Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport
Egypt

image of Shafiun N. Shimul, Ph.D. — Shafiun N. Shimul, Ph.D.
Institute of Health Economics
Bangladesh

image of Tamara Mijović Spasova, MBA — Tamara Mijović Spasova, MBA
Analytica
Macedonia

External Collaborators

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image of Emmanuel Guindon, Ph.D. — Emmanuel Guindon, Ph.D.

image of Evan Blecher, Ph.D. — Evan Blecher, Ph.D.

image of Geoffrey T. Fong, Ph.D. — Geoffrey T. Fong, Ph.D.

image of Guillermo Paraje, Ph.D. — Guillermo Paraje, Ph.D.

image of Hana Ross, Ph.D. — Hana Ross, Ph.D.

Itziar Belausteguigoitia, MPP, MHR

image of John Tauras, Ph.D. — John Tauras, Ph.D.

image of Jovan Zubović, Ph.D. — Jovan Zubović, Ph.D.

image of K. Michael Cummings, Ph.D., MPH — K. Michael Cummings, Ph.D., MPH

image of Kai-Wen Cheng, Ph.D. — Kai-Wen Cheng, Ph.D.

image of Kevin Welding, Ph.D. — Kevin Welding, Ph.D.

image of Lisa Powell, Ph.D. — Lisa Powell, Ph.D.

image of Martin González-Rozada, Ph.D. — Martin González-Rozada, Ph.D.

image of Mauricio Cárdenas, Ph.D. — Mauricio Cárdenas, Ph.D.

image of Megan C. Diaz, Ph.D. — Megan C. Diaz, Ph.D.

image of Michael Pesko, Ph.D., MA — Michael Pesko, Ph.D., MA

image of Michal Stoklosa, Ph.D. — Michal Stoklosa, Ph.D.

image of Nigar Nargis, Ph.D. — Nigar Nargis, Ph.D.

image of Rijo M. John, Ph.D — Rijo M. John, Ph.D

image of Rosa Sandoval, MPA — Rosa Sandoval, MPA