Graduate School of Business 222
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5015

enthoven@stanford.edu
(650) 723-0641 (voice)
(650) 723-1919 (fax)

Expertise
financing and delivery of health care in the United States and other industrialized nations; cost-benefit decisions in health care

Alain Enthoven is the Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, emeritus, at Stanford University, and a core faculty member at CHP/PCOR. Known as the "father of managed competition," he was one of the founders of the Jackson Hole Group, a national think-tank on healthcare policy. His research focuses on the financing and delivery of health care in the United States and other industrialized nations, and cost-benefit analysis in medical care. In his numerous publications he has advocated a financially integrated healthcare delivery system that relies on market-based incentives to reduce medical costs and increase economic accountability and quality of care.

Enthoven is a member of the Institute of Medicine, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former Rhodes Scholar. He is a consultant to Kaiser Permanente, former chairman of the Health Benefits Advisory Council for the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CALPERS), and chairman of Stanford University's Committee on Faculty/Staff Human Resources. He previously served as an economist with the RAND Corporation and as president of Litton Medical Products.

He received the Baxter Prize for Health Services Research (1994), and the Board of Directors Award from the Healthcare Financial Management Association (1995). He received a BA from Stanford, a master's degree from Oxford and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- all in economics.