Kieke Okma,
Adjunct Associate Professor, Wagner School of Public Services, New York University
Former Senior Policy Advisor, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, The Hague

Kieke G. H. Okma, a Dutch national, received her Ph.D. from the medical faculty of the University of Utrecht and a master's degree in economics from Free University, Amsterdam. She is Associate Professor at the Wagner School of Public Service of New York University, and Visiting Professor at the Catholic University Leuven, Belgium. After a four-year stint as Research Fellow at the Center for World Food Studies, Free University, Amsterdam (1977-1980), Kieke Okma fulfilled several positions in government agencies in The Netherlands and abroad: Deputy Director of the Netherlands Foreign Trade Office; Advisor to the Investigative Committee on Housing Subsidies of Dutch Parliament; Second Economic Secretary to the Netherlands Embassy, Washington, D.C.; Technical Assistant to the Executive Director of the World Bank, Washington, D.C. She worked as a senior policy advisor at the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Netherlands from 1989 to 2004. Her positions at the Health Ministry included Executive Secretary to the Steering Committee on Health Care Reforms; Advisor to the Parliamentary Investigative Committee on Decision-Making in Health Care; Executive Secretary to the Advisory Committee on Budgeting Health Insurers; and Executive Secretary to the Advisory Committee on the Position of Nursing Professionals. She has held part-time positions at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.