Elias Mossialos is Reader in Health Policy, Department of Social Policy and Co-Director of LSE Health and Social Care at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Research Director of the European Observatory on Health Care Systems. He has recently co-edited Health Care and Cost Containment in the European Union and Public Health Policies in the European Union. Anna Dixon is a Research Officer of the European Observatory on Health Care Systems and a Research Associate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has edited a number of reports on the health care systems of western European countries. Josep Figueras is the head of the Secretariat and a Research Director of the European Observatory on Health Care Systems, and is Regional Adviser for the Health Systems Analysis at the WHO Regional Office for Europe. He was co-editor of Critical Challenges for Health Care Reform in Europe. Joe Kutzin is currently working for the World Health Organization in Kyrgyzstan as a health policy advisor. He has over 15 years' experience as a health economist, working with WHO, the World Bank, and as a consultant. He has a Master's Degree in Development Economics from Boston University.