Professor Kent Buse is a political economist with expertise in health policy analysis. He is presently Director of the Healthier Societies Program at the George Institute for Global Health. He is co-founder and co-CEO of Global Health 50/50, a registered charity in the UK and a leading advocacy and accountability organisation for gender equality in global health. Presently a Visting Professor at the School of Public Heath, Imperial College London, he was previously a faculty member of Yale University School of Public Health and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

He is lead author of the world-leading textbook ‘Making Health Policy which now in its 3^rd edition. He is co-author/editor of several other books as well as over 200 peer reviewed papers, chapters, editorials and reports on a range of issues related to health in low- and middle-income countries as well as on global health policy, architecture and governance.

He has served at a senior level in the United Nations, including as chief of strategy, policy and research at UNAIDS for 12 years. He has lived in numerous countries and worked and advised a wide range of organisations. He has provided strategic and political advice to individuals seeking leadership positions in multilateral and UN agencies. He has led campaigns to improve governance processes in global health and development. He serves on two WHO expert committees and is on the Board of the World Obesity Federation where he chairs its Policy and Prevention Committee.