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Speaker Biographies (Listed Alphabetically)
Joseph Kutzin - Regional Advisor, Health Systems Financing Head, World Health Organization (WHO)
Joseph Kutzin is Head of the Barcelona Office for Health System Strengthening of the World Health
Organization's Regional Office for Europe. He is a health economist with over 20 years’ experience
in health financing policy and health system reform. A US citizen, he began his career as a Health
Policy Analyst with the Project HOPE Center for Health Affairs. He joined the World Bank in 1989 and
worked there for four years, co-authoring a book on the economics and financing of public hospitals
in developing countries. His career with WHO began at the Organization's headquarters in Geneva
in 1994, where he developed work on health financing policy and the evaluation of reforms. In 2000
he moved to Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia as WHO’s Senior Resident Policy Advisor to the Ministry of
Health. While there, he established and managed a health policy analysis unit that has since become
an integral part of the health system. He moved to Copenhagen in 2003 as the WHO/EURO Regional
Advisor for Health Systems Financing in the Division of Country Health Systems, a position he continues
to hold along with his role as Head of the WHO Office for Health System Development in Barcelona that
began in 2007. He has published numerous articles as well as co-authored and edited books on health
financing in Europe as well as in low and middle-income countries. In 2007 and 2008, he worked closely
on the development of the Tallinn Charter on Health Systems: Health Systems, Health and Wealth. The
Charter was adopted by the Governments of the 53 Member-States of the European Region. He holds a
Master’s Degree in Development Economics from Boston University.
Emmanuel Lagarrigue - Sr. VP Business Development Europe, Schneider Electric
Zain Laher - Vice President of Emerging Capital Partners (ECP)
Jan Levy - Director, Three Hands
Emmanuel Lagarrigue is the Business Development Senior Vice-President for Europe at Schneider
Electric, one of the worldwide leaders in energy management for buildings, industrial processes
and data centers. Emmanuel is in charge of sales and marketing organization optimization, channel
management, M&A and, above all, of the development of new businesses for Schneider Electric in
Europe. Developing technologies for the optimization of energy usage and accelerating their introduction
in buildings, industry and datacenters is the first priority for Schneider Electric today. Prior to his current
appointment, Emmanuel has served in several leadership roles in France, Spain, Portugal, Brazil and
Argentina. Emmanuel was educated as an engineer and holds a degree in marketing management.
Zain Laher is a Vice President of Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) based in Johannesburg. ECP is the
first private equity group to raise more than $1.6 billion for investment in companies across the African
continent. The ECP team has been investing in Africa since 2000. Today, the firm has a nine-year trackrecord
of investing in Africa through six successful funds and over 50 investments, 20 exits and a strong
portfolio of remaining transactions. At ECP, Mr Laher is involved in deal sourcing, investment appraisal,
execution and monitoring. Prior to joining ECP in 2006, Mr. Laher was with Standard Bank Plc in London
where he focused on emerging market resource banking. He was previously in the Investment Banking
Division in South Africa where he focused on project finance transactions in South Africa and other
emerging markets. He started his career as a graduate trainee at Standard Bank’s Investment Banking
Division in South Africa and worked in various divisions including Corporate Finance, Project Finance,
Global Markets and Credit. Mr Laher currently sits on the board of Spencon International Limited and
Blue Financial Services. He is a citizen of South Africa.
Jan graduated from IESE in 2001 and joined Three Hands in the UK (www.threehands.co.uk) as its
second employee, in 2005. Three Hands links businesses with non-profit organisations, for mutual
benefit. Many of Three Hands’ programmes are designed to address the learning & development
objectives of individuals and teams from business, through challenging real-life projects that benefit
charities and communities, in the UK and developing countries. Three Hands’ current clients include
O2, Sky, Legal & General, The Guardian newspaper and Standard Chartered Bank. As a Director of
the company, Jan’s responsibilities are varied and include developing relationships with companies and
charities, devising and delivering innovative community-based projects to benefit both company clients
and community organisations, and other general management duties common to small businesses,
from marketing to tea-making. Prior to that he had gained experience in both the private and voluntary
sectors; he spent three years at UK NGO Business in the Community, working on various corporate
community involvement projects. He has an MBA from IESE Business School, Barcelona, and he has
worked with NGOs in La Paz, Bolivia dedicated to assisting orphaned and deaf children. In his early
career, he was a director of a successful publishing and marketing business.
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