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Tristan Reed (Speaker)

Tristan Reed is an economist for the World Bank's Development Research Group, working on topics in public policy and industrial organization relevant to low- and middle-income economies. Alongside research, he advises infrastructure and development policy lending operations, and supports the multilateral effort to vaccinate the world against COVID-19. Prior to joining the Bank, Tristan Reed served banking and public sector clients as a McKinsey & Company associate in their Lagos, Nigeria office. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and a B.A. summa cum laude from UCLA.

Michael Kent Ranson has been a Senior Economist (Health), based in the World Bank office in Geneva, since 2014. He is the World Bank¡¯s focal point for engagement with Gavi and COVAX, and has served as Gavi Board Alternate, and on the Gavi Programme and Policy Committee, since 2018. He is part of the team that developed a new mechanism that allows countries to use World Bank financing to purchase COVID-19 vaccines, beyond the fully donor-subsidised doses they are already receiving, through COVAX. He is co-chair of the Immunization Agenda 2030 Financial Sustainability working group.

Deon Filmer (Chair)

Deon Filmer is Director of the Development Research Group at the World Bank. He has previously served as Acting Research Manager in the Research Group, Co-Director of the World Development Report 2018: Learning to Realize Education¡¯s Promise, and Lead Economist in the Human Development department of the Africa Region of the World Bank. He works on issues of human capital and skills, service delivery, and the impact of policies and programs to improve human development outcomes¡ªwith research spanning the areas of education, health, social protection, and poverty and inequality. He has published widely in refereed journals, including studies of the impact of demand-side programs on schooling and learning; the roles of poverty, gender, orphanhood, and disability in explaining education inequalities; and the determinants of effective service delivery.