Alan Weil, Executive Director

Alan Weil has been NASHP’s executive director since September 2004. Mr. Weil previously served as director of the Urban Institute’s Assessing the New Federalism project, one of the largest privately funded social policy research projects ever undertaken in the United States.  He previously held a cabinet position as executive director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, was health policy advisor to Colorado Governor Roy Romer, and was assistant general counsel in the Massachusetts Department of Medical Security.  Mr. Weil is the co-editor of two books, publishes regularly in peer-reviewed journals, and has testified before Congress more than half-a-dozen times.  He is on the editorial board of the journal Health Affairs, and is a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Board on Health Care Services, the Commonwealth Fund’s Commission on a High Performance Health System, and the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.  He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and Harvard Law School.