Amanda Glassman

Amanda Glassman is a member of the GDI Americas board and the Executive Advisor to the President of the Inter-American Development Bank where she oversees strategy, research, and global fora engagement, including as G20 Sherpa. She has extensive experience working on multilateral development finance as well as health and social protection policy and programs in Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Prior to this position, Glassman was the Center for Global Development’s executive vice president, a senior fellow, and chief executive officer of CGD Europe. She also served as the director of global health policy at the Center from 2010 to 2016.  Prior to CGD, Glassman was principal technical lead for health at the IDB, where she led policy dialogue with member countries, designed the results-based grant program Salud Mesoamerica 2015, and served as team leader for conditional cash transfer programs such as Mexico’s Oportunidades and Colombia’s Familias en Accion. From 2005-2007, Glassman was deputy director of the Global Health Financing Initiative at the Brookings Institution. Before joining Brookings, Glassman designed, supervised and evaluated health and social protection loans at the Inter-American Development Bank, and worked as a Population Reference Bureau Fellow at the US Agency for International Development. Glassman has held Board positions at the Population Reference Bureau and the Global Innovation Fund.

Glassman holds a MSc from Harvard School of Public Health and a BA from Brown University, has published on a wide range of health and social protection finance and policy topics, and is editor and coauthor of the books What’s In, What’s Out: Designing Benefits for Universal Health Coverage (Center for Global Development, 2017), Millions Saved: New Cases of Proven Success in Global Health (Center for Global Development 2016), From Few to Many: A Decade of Health Insurance Expansion in Colombia (IDB and Brookings 2010), and The Health of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (World Bank 2001).