Owen Smith is a Lead Economist with the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, currently based in Accra, Ghana. He was previously based in Colombo, Sri Lanka and New Delhi, India. Since joining the World Bank in 2005, he has worked extensively on health financing and health policy issues in the Europe & Central Asia, South Asia and West & Central Africa regions. He is a co-author of Getting Better: Improving Health System Outcomes in Europe and Central Asia and Going Universal: How 24 Countries are Implementing Universal Health Coverage. Recently he co-led the development of Future Fit: West & Central Africa Health, Nutrition & Population Strategy. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked as a health economist with Abt Associates and as a macroeconomist with the Department of Finance Canada.