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John (“Jack”) Langenbrunner is a Health Economist with the World Bank with both research and operations experience. He currently coordinates the new Health Financing and Health Insurance Thematic Group within the Bank and will lead the Bank’s Global Expert Team for Health Systems in 2011-2012.

Since 2008 he has worked on health financing issues and health insurance design and development issues mostly in mainland China, but also Mongolia, Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand and other East Asian and Pacific countries. Prior to that, Jack worked in Eastern Europe in the EU New Member States and in other countries such as Russia, Croatia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgzstan, and Kazakhstan. He has worked as well in selected countries in the Middle East on the development of health insurance including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iran, and Egypt.

Jack’s most recent book is “Financing Health Care in East Asia and the Pacific: Best Practices and Remaining Challenges,” released in June and co-authored with Aparnaa Somanathan. He also has recently co-authored 2 books on Resource Allocation and Strategic Purchasing by insurers and other public and private organizations, and has authored or co-authored a number of papers related to this initiative. He also led the Bank’s work on a manual for National Health Accounts for low and middle income countries. This so-called NHA “Producers Guide” was published in 2003.

Previous to his work at the Bank, Jack was with the US Health Care Financing Administration, a public health insurance program for over 80 million Americans. He later went in the early 1990s to the US Office of Management and Budget where he served on the Clinton Health Care Reform Task Force for the US White House.