Alain Enthoven is the Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management (Emeritus) in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He holds degrees in Economics from Stanford, Oxford and MIT.

Enthoven has served as an economist in both private and public sectors. As a consultant to the Carter Administration, Enthoven designed and proposed Consumer Choice Health Plan, a plan for universal health insurance based on managed competition in the private sector. Under California Governor Wilson he served as Chair of the California Managed Health Care Improvement Task Force that addressed healthcare issues raised by managed care. He is the former Chair of the Health Benefits Advisory Council, and currently serves on the Research Advisory Board of the Committee for Economic Development, as Chair of Stanford University’s Committee on Faculty/Staff Human Resources, and as consultant to Kaiser Permanente.

Enthoven’s recent publications include Toward a 21st Century Health System: The Contributions and Promise of Prepaid Group Practice, edited Laura Tollen (Jossey Bass, San Francisco, 2004).

Alain Enthoven’s awards include the 1963 President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service, the 1994 Baxter Prize for Health Services Research, and the 1995 Board of Directors Award, Healthcare Financial Management Association. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.