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In the latest in the Actuaries Institute podcast series, Vanessa Beenders sits down with Andrew Matthews (Chief Actuary at Medibank Private), Francesco Paolucci (Professor of Health Economics, Newcastle Business School - University of Newcastle), and Adam Stolz (Deputy Chief Actuary and General Manager Pricing at Medibank Private) to discuss the launch of Private Health and Health Care Financing: Learning from the world. Andrew, Francesco and Adam, along with Josefa Henriquez, collaborated to write the Dialogue Paper, an initiative of the Actuaries Institute Public Policy team.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Andrew Matthews is an Associate Professor at Monash University,
a Director of The Stroke Foundation, currently Chief
Actuary of Medibank Private and soon to join Finity
Consulting. His main focus is Health Insurance. Andrew is
a Fellow of the Actuaries Institute. He also has a Master’s in Organizational
Development (MSOD) with Pepperdine University in California, USA – a
leadership program in the art and science of strategic change and building
organizational capability. Andrew’s experience spans corporate, consulting
and education.

Franceso Paolucci is Professor in Health Economics in the
Newcastle Business School at The University of
Newcastle in Australia, and at the School of Economics,
Management & Statistics, University of Bologna in Italy.
A scholar and advisor, over the last decade he has published extensively
in the areas of public policy, economics and management with a particular
focus on healthcare nationally and internationally. Some of his published
work includes one single authored book, three edited special issues in
peer reviewed journals and 55 academic peer-reviewed articles. In 2016 he
received a ‘40under40’ Business News award in WA for his entrepreneurial
and business leadership. Francesco is a permanent member of the Risk
Adjustment Network, which is the leading network in health insurance and
financing research and advisory globally, and the country representative
for Australia.

Adam Stolz is a senior actuary with broad experience in health
insurance, life insurance and retirement savings, in
Australia as well as internationally. Adam is currently
Deputy Chief Actuary and General Manager Pricing at
Medibank, and has previously worked with AIA and AXA in France and the
US. Adam has a passion for customer-orientated innovation in the health
and insurance sectors.

Josefa Henriquez is an economist currently working at the
University of Bologna in Italy on the European Horizon
2020 funded MCDS Therapy economic research group.
She was formerly an advisor in the Minister’s Cabinet at
the Ministry of Health of Chile, where she focused on the development of
the health insurance reform act. Josefa’s research has concentrated on
health economics and she recently contributed to the publication of the
Chilean chapter of the book ‘Risk Adjustment, Risk Sharing and Premium
Regulation in Health Insurance Markets’ 2018, Elsevier.


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This unrivalled expertise enables the profession to comment on a range of business-related issues including enterprise risk management and prudential regulation, retirement income policy, finance and investment, general insurance, life insurance and health financing.

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