Mark V. Pauly is the Bendheim Professor in the Department of Health Care Management;  professor of health care management, insurance and risk management, and business and public policy at the Wharton School; codirector of the Roy and Diana Vagelos Life Sciences and Management Program; and professor of economics in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. A former commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Commission, Mr. Pauly has served on the advisory committee to the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality and on the Medicare Technical Advisory Panel. He currently serves on the National Advisory Council for the National Institutes of Health National Center for Research Resources, the National Academy of Sciences' Committee to Study the Veterinary Workforce, and its Committee on the Biomedical Workforce. He has been a consultant to the Congressional Budget Office, the Office of the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (which supported some of his work on individual health insurance), and health trade associations. Mr. Pauly is a coeditor-in-chief of the International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics and an associate editor of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.  

From 2005 to 2009, John held the position of Health Attaché of the United States Mission to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In that capacity, John represented the United States at UNESCO and OECD on health, social, and science policy matters such as the effect of U.S. and European health systems'organizational and reimbursement policies on innovation, quality, and access.

Prior to his position of Health Attaché, John served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, in charge of the Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 2001 to 2005. While practicing law, with specialty in health law and policy, John represented hospitals, hospital associations, organ recovery organization, doctors, and others in connection with legal issues such as Medicare reimbursement; price controls; health planning and certificate of need; organ donation and recovery; antitrust; fraud and abuse and self-referral; national physician data bank; and physician discipline.