Dr. Windham-Bannister will chair the Council of Experts. She was the first President and CEO of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC), a quasi-public agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts tasked with implementing the Massachusetts Life Sciences Act. Before assuming her role at MLSC, Dr. Windham-Bannister was a founding partner of Abt Bio-Pharma Solutions, a boutique consulting firm serving life sciences companies. In her 35-year consulting career, she and has been instrumental in the successful launch of a number of well-known therapeutics, medical devices and novel biomarkers. She has co-authored two books: Competitive Strategy for Health Care Organizations, and Medicaid and Other Experiments in State Health Policy. Dr. Windham-Bannister holds a BA from Wellesley College and a PhD in health policy and management from the Florence Heller School at Brandeis University, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School.