Magdalena Rathe is a health economist and co-founder and Executive Director of the Plenitud Foundation (Fundación Plenitud), which works to strengthen health systems and to achieve a more equitable and sustainable world; and coordinator of the Observatory of the Health System of the Dominican Republic (Observatorio del Sistema de Salud de la Republica Dominicana) and the Americas Network on Health Accounts. She is an expert in health systems research and financing policies, health accounts, and financial protection, with a main interest in improving the health system performance and understanding its complexity. Magdalena also collaborates with the update of the Global Expenditure Database of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the Latin America and the Caribbean countries that is published annually in the World Health Statistics by WHO, and the World Development Indicators by the World Bank, and collaborated with the Harvard Global Initiative for Equity. She has published several books and has written numerous articles and book chapters. Ms. Rathe has been a consultant for various international agencies such as WHO, the Pan-American Health Organization, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the World Bank, as well as universities such as the Harvard School of Public Health and George Washington University. She has held important positions in the Dominican government, including on the Monetary Board of the Dominican Republic.