Daniel Cotlear was the team leader for the UNICO Program (Universal Health Coverage program) and the Universal Health Coverage Study Series that produced 24 country case studies of countries implementing UHC. He also was lead author for Going Universal – a book that synthesizes the series. He is Lead Economist at the World Bank’s Global Practice on Health, Nutrition, and Population, with a focus on developing tools to support countries in the implementation of universal health coverage. He has been involved in the preparation of dozens of country studies and of many policy and investment projects in three continents. Before joining the Bank he taught economics and was advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture of Peru.