Arin Dutta is a Senior Health Specialist at ADB. He is a health economist who has worked extensively on health sector reform and health financing, especially on scale-up of health insurance schemes. Before ADB, he held lead technical roles while supporting USAID-funded projects across Asia and the Pacific and sub-Saharan Africa and worked on innovative financing for social protection in Asia. He has experience in health system strengthening, with a focus on primary care and maternal and reproductive health costing and financing. Previously, he worked at Palladium and Abt Associates, both USAID implementer organizations, as well as the Clinton Foundation, RAND, and the World Bank. He has a PhD in Policy Analysis, with a focus on health economics, a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Economics from the University of Delhi.