About us

MISSION.

Expand the adoption of evidence-based health policies across low and middle-income countries.

Concentric Policies is an emerging actor in the field of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) with core competencies in advocacy, political economy analysis, and operations. We support the adoption and implementation of highly cost-effective interventions for NCDs by engaging government stakeholders, connecting policymakers with technical experts, producing contextually tailored evidence, and mobilizing civil society. Concentric Policies has been a Network Member of the NCD Alliance since February, 2024.

Concentric Policies was founded in September 2023 through the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program. Charity Entrepreneurship has helped launch 50 charities that are now reaching over 35 million people with their interventions.

Team

Co-Founder and

Executive Director

Sam Emerman

Sam is currently a Short-term Consultant with The World Bank Group and holds experience across roles in business development, community-building, and corporate social responsibility. While studying Economics at the University of Florida, he founded the school’s Effective Altruism chapter and managed international partnerships for Special Olympics.

Senior Technical Advisor,

Tax Administration & PFM

Maarten De Zeeuw

Maarten brings two decades of experience in Public Financial Management consultancy across ~30 developing economies. His specializations include Tax Administration (all round), Tax Policy (all round), Non-Tax Revenue, Public Finance, Fiscal Analysis, Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA), and Local Government Revenue.

Researchers

Catherine Wang

University of Oxford

Bourema Diarra

Eötvös Loránd University

Advisors

Patrick Stadler

Patrick is co-founder and chair of the board of New Incentives, a GiveWell-recommended nonprofit. He helped New Incentives scale to over 100,000 users for their vaccination programme in Nigeria.

Patrick was previously a political advisor for Switzerland’s economic development agency and worked on strategic communications for peacebuilding and mediation at the UN.

Kristina Sperkova

Kristina is the President of Movendi International, the largest independent global movement for development through alcohol prevention. She has also worked in numerous roles for the IOGT-NTO movement, a Swedish NGO that conducts development aid work with partners in Southeast Asia, East Africa, and Balkan countries.

Kristina has served on the board of Movendi International since 2006. She holds a master's degree in psychology from Comenius University in Slovakia.

Sophia Monica San Luis

Sophia is the co-founder and executive director of ImagineLaw, Inc., a public interest law organization that builds evidence-based, people-centered policy solutions to public health problems. Under Sophia's leadership, ImagineLaw has developed and advocated for over 50 national and sub-national policies in the Philippines.

Sophia is also a legal consultant of the Global Health Advocacy Incubator for the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative.

Julian Jamison

Dr. Jamison is a Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter and a Senior Researcher at the Global Priorities Institute in Oxford. He has held senior roles at the World Bank, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Julian earned a PhD in Economics at MIT and has held positions as a fellow or visiting faculty member at HEC Paris, Yale, and Harvard.

Joel Tan

Joel is the founder of CEARCH, a Charity Entrepreneurship-incubated organization doing cause prioritization research. CEARCH has produced extensive reports on sugar and sodium policies to tackle diabetes and hypertension.

Joel was previously a policy officer in the Singapore government and a consultant specializing in political, economic and policy research. He graduated from the University of Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics & Economies.

J.T. Stanley

J.T. co-founded Concentric Policies in 2023, playing a key role in advancing government partnerships.

He previously worked in the eastern Congo conflict zone for an all-Congolese NGO, established a small virtual reality business in Goma, Congo, and spent time on political campaigns. J.T. created his own degree—Advocacy and Social Venture Management—at the University of Maryland, College Park.