Simon Stevens will serve as executive vice president, UnitedHealth Group, with major responsibilities in the areas of health care reform and global health interests. In his new role, which reports to Stephen J. Hemsley, chief executive officer and president of UnitedHealth Group, Mr. Stevens will lead the company’s strategic positioning for national health reform, helping ensure its businesses are well positioned to be effective partners in the changing marketplace and evolving government policy environment. He will also establish and direct a UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform, which will draw on thought leadership within the company and from external experts and other resources to address how best to tackle the leading health care challenges facing the U.S. Stevens also has been appointed president of the company’s Global Health interests to oversee the company’s current international business opportunities. Since late 2006 Stevens has served as chief executive officer of Ovations, UnitedHealth Group’s seniors health business and the nation’s largest and most diversified Medicare health plan. Stevens’ executive experience in health care spans twenty years of service, in hospitals, primary care and as a payer, in the private and public sectors, both in the U.S. and internationally. Simon lives in Minneapolis with his wife and son, and was educated at Oxford University, Strathclyde University, and Columbia University. He is Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, and serves on the boards of several non-profits and public policy think tanks.
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