David
Dror
David M. Dror
is a Senior Health Insurance Specialist in the Social Protection Sector, leading
a team of health financing experts from the International Labor Organization (ILO)/University
of Lyon 1/World Bank. In the "Social Re" project, this team conceptualized and
piloted re-insurance for community-financed health insurance schemes. Social Re
won first prize in the Development Marketplace 2000. Dr. Dror has a D.B.A. magna
cum laude (St. George) and an M.A. (Jerusalem). He has been Director of the Labor
Conditions Department, Israeli Employers' Federation and was the Lead Representative
for the Council of the National Insurance Institute of Israel. He was appointed
to the ILO Committee of Experts on Actuarial & Social Security Questions and helped
to elaborate international social security standards during his years as Delegate
to the International Labor Conference. Dr. Dror was Chief of the ILO-spell out
(ITU) Staff Health Insurance Fund. He presented the paper "Concept of Community-Based
Insurance" (with Joe Kutzin and Rainer Sauerborn) at the XV International Congress
for Tropical Medicine and Malaria, and the keynote address Financing Micro-Insurance:
Perspective and Prospective at the 7th International Conference on System Science
in Health Care (Budapest). Dr. Dror has written numerous papers and publications
including Financing Micro-Insurance: Perspective and Prospective (with Duru, G.).