Dr. Panco Georgiev

Panco is a senior partner at McKinsey. He leads the firm’s Healthcare Systems & Services Practice in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa and has. Panco brings 15+ years of experience; serving clients across the entire healthcare sector, with a focus on advising authorities, payers, and providers in emerging markets on strategic, organizational, and operational topics. Panco has supported the design and implementation of several health-system reforms, including the development of the overall reform strategies, introducing new health-system financing concepts, efficient capacity planning and resource allocation, holistic approaches to workforce planning, as well as solving governance-related issues. With healthcare providers, Panco’s focus is on large-scale transformation programs covering all aspects of operational and financial improvement across both clinical and nonclinical areas. Panco is a medical doctor with a PhD in molecular biology, Panco has published more than 20 scientific publications. Prior to joining McKinsey, he undertook a clinical residency in surgery at the University Hospital of Zurich, with a focus on abdominal surgery and transplantation. He also undertook three years of basic science research with a focus on liver immunology.