WILLIAM McGREEVEY, PhD
Dr. William McGreevey is the Director of Development Economics for Futures Group; which he joined in 1997 after retirement from the World Bank. He has focused in recent years on issues in the economics of HIV/AIDS in developing countries. He was a member of the team that produced the resource requirements estimates for UNGASS that were later used by WHO for its 3 by 5 commitment, and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
Dr. McGreevey advises UNAIDS, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, USAID, the multi-lateral banks, and other organizations on resource flows and the impact of HIV/AIDS on development. He led an international team that produced “Measuring the systems effects of the Global Fund with a focus on additionality, partnerships and sustainability” (Geneva, May 2005). Work in progress for the UNAIDS resource tracking unit includes a report on absorptive capacity, bottlenecks, and out of pocket payments for AIDS services that will be used as a background paper for the UNGASS+5 meetings to review progress in the fight against AIDS, July 2006.
Dr. McGreevey is an adjunct professor, Dept of Global Health, George Washington University. At the World Bank, he managed the Living Standard Measurement Study during its initial phase (1980-82). He was a member of the team that produced World Development Report 1984, on population and development. He managed sector analyses in Brazil and was chief of the unit dealing with human resources for Mexico and Central America (1986-92). He developed national health accounts analyses for Brazil, several Central American countries and later for Ukraine (1993) and China (1994-96). He managed Bank staff and consultant work on health sector finance and reform in Eastern Europe, China, South Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa as part of the anchor group of the Human Development network (1992-97). Before joining the Bank he managed population and development projects sponsored by USAID (1972-80), worked a year at the OAS (1971-72), and taught economics and economic history at UCBerkeley (1965-71) and University of Oregon (1964-65).
