Alexander S. Preker
Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Administration & Health


Alexander S. Preker is the Lead Economist at the World Bank for West Africa. Mr. Preker has published extensively. He coordinated the team that prepared the World Bank's Sector Strategy for Health, Nutrition and Population in 1997. While seconded to the World Health Organization during 1999 to 2000, he was one of the coauthors of the World Health Report 2000 on Health Systems: Measuring Performance and subsequently served as a member of Working Group 3 of the WHO Commission on Macro-Economics and Health. In collaboration with UNICEF, the ILO and several bilateral donors, he recently helped the WHO Regional Office in Brazzaville prepare a Health Financing Strategy for the Africa Region which was adopted by the 56th Regional Council of Health Ministers in August 2006. He is currently a member of the Task Force on Scaling up Health Education of the Global Health Workforce Alliance and is leading a team of technical experts that is preparing a report on the financial sustainability of scaling up health education in developing countries. Mr. Preker is the Editor of Bank's HNP Publication Series (www.worldbank.org/hnp/publications) and three web based publications: Economic Viewpoint , Leadership Forum and HSD Editorial (www.worldbank.org/afr/hnp). He is a member of the Editorial Committee for the Bank's External Operations publication department and on the External Advisory Board for the London School of Economics Health Group London School of Economics Health Group. He is a member of the teaching faculty for the Berkeley/Barcelona Leadership Forum. He teaches regularly at Columbia University and McGill University. His training includes a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Fellowship in Medicine from University College London, a Diploma in Medical Law and Ethics from Kings College London, and a MD from University of British Columbia/McGill.