Greg Marchildon is Ontario Research Chair in Health Policy and System Design and Professor at the Institute of Health, Policy and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He also has a teaching cross-appointment at the School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, a member of the editorial board of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and an originating member of the Pan-Canadian Health Reform Analysis Network (PHRAN). After obtaining his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Dr. Marchildon taught for five years at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. After serving as Deputy Minister to the Premier and Cabinet Secretary in the government of Saskatchewan in the 1990s, he was the Executive Director of the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada (the Romanow Commission). He was then appointed a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair and helped create the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy with campuses at the Universities of Regina and Saskatchewan. He is the author of numerous journal articles and books on comparative health policy and the history of medicare in Canada.