James “Jim” Rice, Ph.D., is the chairman of the Akadimi Foundation where he acts as a senior advisor for ministries of health, health system providers, and integrated care systems across the U.S. and in low- and middle-resource countries. He focuses his consulting work on health system strengthening through international study tours and building strategic governance structures and management systems for high-performing public service organizations, credit unions, and health-sector organizations.

Dr. Rice holds doctoral and master’s degrees in management and health policy from the University of Minnesota. He has received the Distinguished Alumni Leadership Award from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health; a National Institute of Health Doctoral Fellowship; a U.S. Public Health Service Traineeship in Hospital Management; a Bush Leadership Fellowship at Stanford and the National University of Singapore; and the American Hospital Association’s Corning Award for Excellence in Hospital Planning.

He has worked in more than 35 countries and was recently the project director of a $200 million, USAID-funded project serving countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In addition, Dr. Rice holds faculty positions at The Strathmore School of Business in Nairobi, Kenya; The Advance Institute for Health Services Management in Prague, the Czech Republic; and co-founded the International Health Leadership Programme in The Judge School of Business at Cambridge University in England.