Examination of Witnesses (Question 19)
DR KENT
BUSE AND
MR ALVARO
BERMEJO
28 OCTOBER 2008
Q19 Chairman: We can resume on our second
set of witnesses. Just to comment on the last session, I think
Lucy Chesire is a real campaigner. Those of us who have met her
in person know what kind of personality she has got and I do not
think the technology completely communicated that, although I
do think she said some very important and useful points. I wonder,
first of all, if I could ask you both to introduce yourselves
for the record and, obviously, for the benefit of the whole committee?
Dr Buse: Certainly. My name is
Kent Buse, I am a political economist, I taught at Yale for a
number of years and taught at the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine. I have worked for a number of UN organisations.
For the past three years I have been with the Overseas Development
Institute here in London and I am about to join UNAIDS next week.
I have done a fair amount of work on global health initiatives,
but my real interest is in the politics of decision-making in
the health sector.
Mr Bermejo: My name is Alvaro
Bermejo; I am the Executive Director of the International HIV/AIDS
Alliance UK charity, working on supporting community responses,
the responses of people like Lucy in developing countries.
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