Arin Dutta is a Senior Health Specialist at ADB. He is a health economist who has worked extensively on health sector reform and health financing, especially on the scale-up of health insurance schemes. Before ADB, he held lead technical roles while supporting USAID-funded projects across Asia and the Pacific, and sub-Saharan Africa and worked on innovative financing for social protection in Asia. He has experience in health system strengthening, with a focus on primary care and maternal and reproductive health costing and financing.

Prof Buchan has specialized in healthcare workforce policy analysis throughout his career. His background includes working at the national level in the National Health Service in Scotland, his home country, and as a  specialist adviser to  Health Workforce Australia, a federal government agency. He has also worked for WHO in Geneva and Copenhagen. He is currently working as an adviser in Europe, Asia, and the Pacific, for governments and international agencies such as ICN, WHO, World Bank.

Tim has extensive experience in assisting clients to ensure safe, healthy compliant operations in some of the most challenging operating environments in the world. In addition to his post as CEO of FrontierMEDEX, Tim has also acted as CEO of both G4S Risk Management Ltd, and Kroll Security International, two of the world’s leading specialist security providers. Tim has overseen large-scale medical and security operations in over 50 countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa, The Middle East, Asia, and South America, and environments as remote as the Arctic and Antarctica.