Robert is a public health policy specialist and leads the Alliance’s work on noncommunicable diseases, climate change and the social determinants of health. He has more than 15 years' experience working on health systems at the global and country levels.

Before joining the Alliance, he worked in the WHO India Country Office to help roll out national primary health care reforms and was previously the Health Systems Coordinator for WHO in Sierra Leone at the end of the Ebola virus outbreak. He also worked as a Council of Foreign Relations Hitachi Fellow in Tokyo, Japan, and on the Rockefeller Foundation’s Transforming Health Systems initiative.

Robert holds master’s degrees from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the Hertie School of Governance. He also has a doctoral degree from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.