1. Dr Francesco Paolucci: Bio Francesco Paolucci is a health economist and Research Fellow at ACERH (ANU). Prior to taking up his current post in 2007, he worked for five years as a researcher at the Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, where he wrote his PhD thesis entitled "The design of basic and supplementary health care financing schemes: implications for efficiency and affordability", under the supervision of Prof. W.P.M.M. van de Ven and Prof. F.T. Schut. His previous and current appointments are: Assistant-Director of the European Master in Law and Economics at University of Bologna; Assistant-Director of the Master in Health Economics, Policy and Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam; Coordinator of the course in "Competition policy in the health care sector" at Erasmus University Rotterdam; and Member of the iHEA Scientific Committee. He is currently working with ACERH colleagues on the economic analysis of regulation in the Australian voluntary health insurance market with a particular focus on the risk-equalisation system. http://www.acerh.edu.au/Staff/paolucci.php