Simon Gottschalk simon.gottschalk@unlv.edu University of Nevada, Las Vegas Professor of Sociology I joined the department in 1992 after earning a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, an M.A. from the University of Houston, and a B.A. from the University of Haifa (Israel). Combining critical symbolic interaction theory and qualitative research methods, my interests revolve around understanding the society-psyche link in phenomena as varied as youth cultures, the mass

Matthew Lawrence Aon Chief Broking Officer, Health Solutions, EMEA Matthew has worked in the health industry for 20 years, where he carries out a variety of leadership roles for Aon’s Health Solutions business. As well coordinating and executing the broking strategy for the EMEA region, Matthew leads Aon’s health and analytics capabilities. He advises some of Europe’s largest and most complex employers on the financing of their benefit programmes,

Mark Votruba mark.votruba@case.edu Case Western Reserve University Associate Professor of Economics and Medicine Associate Professor of Economics at Case Western Reserve University with faculty appointments in the Weatherhead School of Management and the Center for Health Care Research and Policy at MetroHealth Medical Center. Director of Graduate Health Programs at Weatherhead School of Management. Co-authored paper that won the 2012 Arrow Award for Best Paper in Health Economics.

Claire Steves claire.j.steves@kcl.ac.uk Cing’s College London Professor of Health Finance Dr Claire J Steves MA (Cantab) MBBS MRCP PhD (female) is a Senior (Clinical) Lecturer at Kings College London and Locum Consultant Geriatrician at Kings College Hospital. She graduated first class from Cambridge University in 1997, and went on to pursue clinical studies in the heart of the East End of London, graduating with multiple distinctions in 2000. She trained in the prestigious St Thomas’s