James Cercone

Mr. Cercone is a mathematical economist from the University of Michigan with 20 years of experience in public policy and public sector reform with particular emphasis in Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, CIS, and Eastern Europe. Over the past 20 years, Mr. Cercone has worked extensively with the World Bank, IDB, and other international organizations on a wide range of social and public sector projects. He has founded and managed more than 10 healthcare and technology companies and is an advocate for healthcare price transparency. His experience in health insurance and health policy includes projects in more than 60 countries. Extensive experience and a proven track record in Telehealth services, from system design, infrastructure set up and implementation, to post-implementation capacity building, assistance, and direct management. Many of these projects have been focused on the development of health systems, establishing health insurance and financing reforms, monitoring and evaluation frameworks, the economic analysis of projects, and impact evaluations. Starting in 2003, Mr. Cercone began to work on education financing issues culminating in the secondary financing reforms approved by the Cabinet of Belize in 2010. Mr. Cercone has been identified by UNAIDS as one of the top ten global experts for M&E of HIV projects and he continues to work with the Global Fund and other organizations on the development of M&E systems and impact evaluations. His experience also includes the management of successful IT projects including the development of software for health insurance systems and DRG (provider payment mechanisms) in the Bahamas, Belize, Costa Rica, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic.