Gregory Marks is a graduate of the University of Oxford and McGill University. Most recently he began a 3 year commitment with Teach for America, working in a Title 1 NYC Public School in Harlem, New York. Previously, Gregory was the Democratic Nominee for New York State Assembly in the 2020 election. He ran to represent more than 120,000 people, earned more than 20,000 votes and raised over 100,000 dollars during the course of his campaign. Before running for office, Gregory has served as a co-founder of the nutritional literacy enterprise ChopWell, a health policy researcher at the Institute for Health and Social Policy, and a lecturer in global health governance at the University of St Andrews School of Medicine. While at the University of Oxford, Gregory studied the MSc in Comparative Social Policy, with a focus on health policy. He was a member of the Leading for Impact Social Entrepreneurship Team at the Saïd Business School and the head delegate for the Oxford University United Nations Association Debate Team. Prior to Oxford, Gregory spent five months at a consulting firm, where he advised large multilaterals and NGOs on global health movements, and a year at the Institute for Health and Social Policy, where he analyzed health-related issues ranging from physician migration to health systems development. While obtaining his BA in Economics from McGill University, Gregory presented on health-related topics at three academic conferences and served as an executive board member of the Montreal World Health Organization Simulation, where he led research on global access to health care and hosted expert speakers on HIV/AIDS, neglected tropical diseases, and health in marginalized populations.
Listed skills include Research, Global Health, Health Policy, Public Speaking, and 47 others.