Christopher F. Koller
Christopher F. Koller is President of the Milbank Memorial Fund, an endowed operating foundation founded in 1905 and based in New York City. The Fund’s mission is to improve population health and health equity by collaborating with leaders and decision makers and connecting with evidence and sound experience. The Fund runs state leadership development programs, convenes networks of health policy practice and specific issues and publishes reports and the Milbank Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal of population health and health policy. Previously, Mr. Koller served the State of Rhode Island as the country’s first Health Insurance Commissioner (2005-2013). The office received national recognition for its rate review process and its efforts to promote payment reform, primary care revitalization and delivery system transformation. Earlier, Mr. Koller was the Chief Executive Officer of the Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island for nine years and the founding Chair of the Association of Community Affiliated Plans. He serves in numerous national and state health policy advisory capacities. Mr. Koller is Professor of Practice at the Brown School of Public Health. For an interview with Mr. Koller, please click here.