Simon is a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and is
currently PwC's managing partner for their health industries
business in the Middle East (12 countries). He is also managing
partner for PwC's Health Research Institute (HRI) across EMEA and
sits on the HRI global governing council.
He has specialized in consulting, principally to governments and
the public sector, since 1989. Projects have ranged from high level
strategy and policy initiatives at national level through to multi
sectoral reform reviews, managing and delivering privatisation
transactions and driving performance improvement within specific
delivery organizations. Clients have included the World Bank, Asian
Development Bank, International Finance Corporation, government
ministries and other public sector organizations in Jordan, UAE,
Qatar, Kuwait, Libya, Lebanon, KSA, Australia, South Africa,
Poland, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Korea, the
UK, USA and Cambodia as well as a number of major private sector
corporates in the Middle East, US, UK and Asia Pacific. He has led
projects in the health, pharma, welfare, local government,
transport, telecoms, technology, housing, manufacturing, heritage,
security and financial sectors. Since 2002 he has focused primarily
on health industries issues.
He is currently advising clients in the Middle East on projects
ranging from the establishment of a national social insurance
scheme for a Gulf state to the first major hospital PPP development
in the region.
From 2002-2005 Simon was seconded to the UK's Department of
Health where he undertook a number of roles, latterly as Head of
the national Strategy Unit. This role involved providing medium and
long term strategy advice to the Prime Minister's Office (Strategy
and Delivery Units), health ministers and senior civil
servants.
From 1996-2002 he was seconded to PwC in South East Asia where
he worked across the region (initially as director and then as a
partner) to build a multidisciplinary business focused across those
sectors being funded by international agencies and national
reconstruction funds.
Simon was educated at Cambridge University and London Business
School. He is also an alumnus of Insead and Wharton business
schools. Simon is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK),
an Affiliate Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in
England and Wales is a member of the Royal Institute of
International Affairs and an alumnus of the Konigswinter Programme.
He has written and broadcast widely on public sector reform issues
and is a regular contributor to international policy forums.
