Alexander Preker Email & Phone Number

Mr. Alexander S. Preker is Head of Health Investment Policy in the Investment Climate and Investment Generation branch of the Foreign Investment Advisory Services (FIAS) within the World Bank Group. Mr. Preker leads a team of advisors and analysts that work with policy makers, investors and health businesses in improving the market environment for private sector participation in the health sector in developing countries, with a focus on the new US$1 billion investment facility for Health in Africa (HiA). The World Bank Group has an annual lending pipeline of about US$2 billion and total portfolio value in the range of US$15 billion. Mr. Preker is a member of the Editorial Board for the World Bank’s External Operations Publication Department and Editor in Chief of World Bank’s HNP Publication Series. He has written many scientific articles and is the authors of over 10 books.

Mr. Preker has had a distinguished career, working at different times for International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), International Development Association (IDA), International Finance Corporation (IFC) and World Health Organization (WHO). Previously, as Chief Economist for the health sector, he coordinated the technical team that prepared the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition and Population Sector Strategy in 1997. During the past 10 years, this strategy has provided a vision for the World Bank’s engagement in the health sector in low- and middle-income countries, leading to an annual lending pipeline of about US$2 billion and total portfolio value in the range of US$15 billion.