Lluis Vinals Torres is a health financing expert with 28 years of experience in low and middle-income countries, including Mozambique, Angola, DR Congo, Haiti, Nepal, Cambodia, India, Timor Leste, Sri Lanka and the Philippines. He has worked with several multilateral and bilateral aid agencies, including UNDP, UNICEF, the European Union, WHO, USAID, NORAD, FINNIDA and AECID, among others. His working exposure to all health systems levels, from facility to Ministry, has given him a wide understanding of how to analyze performance at all these levels. He has worked also on social health insurance institutions, supporting many areas such as enrolment, benefits package development, provider payment mechanism design and overall governance. His formal training includes a BA (Hons) in Business Administration from the University of Barcelona, Spain, and an MSc degree on Health Policy from the London School of Economics, United Kingdom. He is currently the Director of the Division of Health Systems and Services in the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific. Previously, within WHO, he worked as Coordinator for Health Policy and Design at the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific and as Health Planning and Financing Regional Adviser at the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia.