Bob Kocher is a partner at Venrock, where he focuses on health-care IT and services investments. He serves on the advisory boards of Harvard Medical School Health Care Policy Department, National Institute of Health Care Management and ChildObesity180. He is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution Engleberg Center and co-chair of the health data initiative. Prior to Venrock, Kocher was President Obama's special assistant for healthcare and economic policy and a member of the National Economic Council. He was a leader of the first lady's "Let's Move" childhood obesity initiative. Earlier, he was a partner at McKinsey & Co. and led McKinsey Global Institute's health-care economics work. Kocher received undergraduate degrees at the University of Washington and a medical degree from George Washington University. He completed a research fellowship with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Institutes of Health, and finished his internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.