Associate Director, Innovative Finance, Milken Institute Finance
Yun Fu is an associate director on the Innovative Finance team at the Milken Institute. She contributes to the research, development, and execution of Financial Innovations Labs, which explores innovative financing models to address global social and economic challenges.
Associate Director, FasterCures, Milken Institute Health
Mark Williams is an associate director with the FasterCures team of the Milken Institute. He manages a number of projects aimed at creating a high-functioning biomedical system, including countering antimicrobial resistance, engaging patients within health systems, and fostering innovation and collaboration in medical research.
The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) was established under the founding principles that health care should be comprehensive, universal, and free at the point of access. However, it now faces a dual crisis: an aging population and increasing rates of disease. The rising demand for its services and budget constraints have limited the care it has been able to provide.
As part of the debut of the Milken Institute’s Project Prevent initiative in 2024, the Institute conducted a series of interviews with 35 key stakeholders and experts in health, finance, philanthropy, pensions, and public policy to explore sustainable additional sources of funding, particularly in these times of fiscal strain, as well as new financing mechanisms to reinvent early-stage prevention services. The exploration centered around three topics, each focused on a critical aspect of the challenge:
What financing mechanisms could overcome traditional barriers to public- and private-sector investment in community-level preventive care?
What would it take to attract the capital to finance such interventions? These conversations focused on identifying the conditions and assurances that would enable asset owners to feel confident in allocating capital to prevention projects.
What would constitute an example of a compelling, investable, and adaptable community-level prevention intervention that would satisfy these conditions?
Stakeholders also shared insights on design and implementation strategies for effective, scalable, community-based prevention that could reduce the burden on the NHS. From those conversations and interviews, we found a consensus that reinforces emerging thinking about the need for a radical shift to a prevention-focused, community-based system. According to the experts interviewed, the real issue confronting the new government is not whether to pivot the system toward prevention, but how to do so. We hope our report contributes to the growing calls for this pivot while providing recommendations that make new sources of investment capital possible.
With decades of finance experience, Mizuno will drive conversations on long-term investments and ESG. Singapore – July 2, 2020 – The Milken Institute announced today that Hiromichi Mizuno, veteran finance executive and the newest...
Associate Director, Milken Institute International
Yeen Chee Chong is an associate director for Milken Institute International. Based in Singapore, he oversees and manages strategic communications with a wide range of global and regional media publications and partners. Chong works closely with colleagues in both Asia and the United States on planning and implementing global public relations and social media campaigns.
In order for developing countries to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the private sector and the countries themselves must be critical providers of funding to achieve the ambitious vision to end poverty, protect...
Over the last two decades, a large number of stock exchanges have established dedicated market segments for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This trend accelerated during the global financial crisis; as banks tightened credit...
Director, Environmental and Social Innovation team, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy
John Schellhase is a director on the Environmental and Social Innovation team at Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy, where his work focuses on social impact philanthropy. As part of his work, Schellhase contributes to and manages projects related to strengthening corporate philanthropy and operating innovation competitions to advance the Sustainable Development Goals.
There are currently 130 million homes in the United States—and their combined residential energy usage accounts for 20 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. Studies have consistently found that nationwide energy efficiency...
This case study focuses on Kenya, where a population of 55 million people, multiple climate zones, and escalating health challenges due to climate change present unique challenges when it comes to establishing an EWS.
DOWNLOAD REPORT VIEW FLIP BOOK The Milken Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank focused on accelerating measurable progress on the path to a meaningful life. With a focus on financial, physical, mental, and environmental health...
WASHINGTON, September 5, 2018 – Michael Piwowar, Ph.D., the respected economist and longtime commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has been named executive director of the Milken Institute Center for Financial...
The four-day, in-person event features more than 800 speakers, including government officials, Oscar winners, philanthropists, investors, and more. Los Angeles, CA – May 1, 2022 – Beginning today, the 25th annual Milken Institute Global...
Chad Clinton is the director of media relations for the Milken Institute. Hired to this role in August 2021, Clinton develops and executes strategies to amplify the Institute’s core messages by generating coverage of its pillar workstreams, experts, and events.
The level of bipartisanship and interest from lawmakers in FinTech-related issues has grown and there remain multiple bipartisan legislative opportunities to drive FinTech policy forward that address hurdles preventing startups and...
All around the world, financial system policymakers continue to respond vigorously to the problems in financial markets, institutions, and regulation and supervision brought into relief by the crisis of 2007 through 2009. However, the...
In 2014 the Milken Institute convened a Financial Innovations Lab® on the topic of how to build mechanisms for financial inclusion. Unlike a number of previous Labs that have focused on easing barriers to capital for entrepreneurs and small...
The Institute hopes to leverage its networks, thought leadership, and experience in innovative finance to help smooth and support the catalytic role of finance and technology in shifting businesses, regulators, and societies toward a more...
Associate Director, Asia, Milken Institute International
Quintus Lim is an associate director of policy and programs for the International pillar at the Milken Institute. He focuses on policy areas such as R&D financing, technological adoption across domains such as health, food, agriculture, finance, and the broader economy, and issues of ecosystem building.
