Owen Smith is a Senior Economist with the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, currently based in New Delhi, India. Since joining the World Bank in 2005, he has worked extensively on health financing and health policy issues in the Europe and Central Asia and South Asia 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. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked as a health economist at a consulting firm with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa and as a macroeconomist at the Canadian Department of Finance with a focus on East Asia.