Francesca Colombo is the Head of the Health Division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) overseeing work on health, aiming to provide internationally comparable data on health and health systems and to apply economic analysis to health policies, advising policy-makers, stakeholders and citizens on how to respond to demands for more and better health. She has over 20 years of experience leading international activities on health and health systems. She is an international expert on health and care issues for elderly populations, and led projects on quality of healthcare policies, health financing and the impact of private health insurance on health systems, health workforce and the international migration of doctors and nurses. Since 1999, she has been working with OECD, held responsibilities for co-ordinating involvement at high-level meetings such as on diabetes, dementia and health workforce.