Alain Charles Enthoven

Alain Enthoven is the Marriner S. Eccles Professor Emeritus of Public and Private Management at Stanford University, and a core faculty member at the Center for Healthcare Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He is 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. He has recently worked on a proposal for a "Market-based Universal Health Insurance System," developed for the Committee for Economic Development. In 1963, he received the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service from John F. Kennedy for his work as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense.