Pia Schneider is a Lead Economist with the World Bank Group, working on health financing and insurance reforms in Eastern and Southern Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Her professional experience includes health economics, health insurance, labor, and studies and evaluation on health sector performance and households. She received her Ph.D. in health economics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK), and holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Basel (Switzerland).