Laurence M. Day, PhD, MPH
President

Dr. Day is an experienced executive level manager who has led major international assessments, evaluations, project designs, reviews, and planning and project implementation activities in all regions of the world. Throughout his career he has focused on applying modern management techniques to organizations in developing countries. He has dedicated his professional career to international health, international economic and business development and strategic planning, and he has advised, designed and managed major projects in each sector.

Dr. Day has directed major assignments for USAID, the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, private sector clients, and nongovernmental organizations. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Payson Center for International Development and Technology Transfer at Tulane University. He has served in high-level representational assignments working with senior Latin American, Asian and African government executive and congressional officials. His management skills include enterprise management, planning, finance, human resources and other operational management areas. He is experienced in developing country settings in the following general areas:

• International development: Evidence based development, project design, evaluation
• International health: Sector expansion and strengthening; program planning and implementation; health management and finance; evaluation
• Operations: Management, strategy development, implementation, planning, opportunity analysis
• Analysis: Performance planning, monitoring and implementation, impact assessment; evaluation
• Policy analysis: Policy reform agenda development and implementation, consensus building
• Sector reform: Concepts, strategy, program design, financial and economic analysis
• Capacity building: Planning, human resources, institutional development, budgeting and resource management,  stewardship, sustainability
• Information planning: Capabilities assessment, use of information systems for managing services and decision-making, transfer of appropriate technology

Dr. Day holds a Ph.D. in public health with a concentration in management and finance, a Master of Public Health degree in international health, and an interdisciplinary Master of Arts degree in economics and political science. He has worked in over 70 countries in Northern, Western, Eastern and Southern Africa; East and South Asia; all parts of Europe; former Soviet countries; the Near East; and extensively throughout Latin America. He has also lived long term in five countries in Africa and Latin America.  He is fluent in Spanish and proficient in Portuguese and French.