Christopher F. Koller

In his role as president of the Milbank Memorial Fund, Christopher leads a more than 100-year-old operating foundation that improves population health and health equity by connecting leaders with evidence and sound experience.

Before joining the Fund in 2013, he served the state of Rhode Island for eight years as the country’s
first health insurance commissioner. Under Christopher’s leadership, the Rhode Island Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner was nationally recognized for its rate review process and its efforts to use insurance regulation to promote payment reform, primary care revitalization, and delivery system transformation. The office was also one of the lead agencies in implementing the Affordable Care Act in Rhode Island.

Prior to that, Christopher was CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island. In this role, he was the founding chair of the Association of Community Affiliated Plans.

In addition, he has served in numerous national and state health policy advisory capacities and was elected to the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine in 2023.

Christopher is also a professor of practice in the School of Public Health at Brown University.

He has a bachelor’s degree (summa cum laude) from Dartmouth College and master’s degrees in social ethics and public/private management from Yale University.