Alain Enthoven, Ph.D.

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Mariner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management
Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Dubbed by some the "father of managed competition," Dr. Enthoven has been head of the Jackson Hole Group, a national think-tank on health care policy. In his numerous publications he advocated for a financially integrated health care delivery system with market incentives for reducing medical costs and economic accountability for quality of care. This system would be shepherded by cooperative corporate or governmental entities who try to insure that the insurers will truly compete.

Dr. Enthoven was the Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He holds degrees in Economics from Stanford, Oxford (where he was a Rhodes scholar), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The positions he has held include Economist with the RAND Corporation, Assistant Secretary of Defense, and President of Litton Medical Products. In 1963, he received the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service from John F. Kennedy. In 1977, while service as a consultant to DHHS Secretary Califano and the Carter Administration, he designed and proposed Consumer Choice Health Plan, a plan for universal health insurance based on managed competition in the private sector.

He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is Chairman of Health Benefits Advisory Council for PERS, the California State employees' medical and hospital care plans, former Chairman of Stanford's University Committee on Faculty/Staff Benefits, and a consultant to Kaiser Permanente.

He was the 1994 winner of the Baxter Prize for Health Services Research and also the 1995 Board of Directors Award, Healthcare Financial Management Association.