Daniel Maceira, is an Argentine citizen, Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University, with research fields in health economics and industrial organization. He is Professor at the Economic Department, National University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina, Independent Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), Senior Researcher at the Center for the Study of State and Society (CEDES), and Director of the Department of Health Policy at the think tank Foundation for the Argentinean Development (FUNDAR). In addition, he is the Director of the MBA-Health of the University of San Andrés, and develops teaching activities in several Postgraduate Programs in Health Economics and Public Health Policy in Argentina and the Latin American Region, such as the Master Program in Public Policies at the University Torcuato Di Tella and the Master Program in Design and Implementation of Public Policies at FLACSO, the Latin American University in Social Sciences. Maceira has collaborated with a wide array of institutions, such as the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC), UNICEF, The World Health Organization, the Pan-American Health Organization, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), USAid, the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), the Gates Foundation, The World Bank, the Global Development Network, the Global Fund for HIV, Malaria and Tuberculosis; the Inter-American Development Bank; the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI Alliance), among others. He has numerous national and international peer review publications and coordinated many research projects and technical assistance initiatives in developing countries, particularly in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region. In 2016 Maceira was elected Board Member of Health Systems Global, the international society in health programs and systems research, where he holds the chair of The Americas until October 2024.