Prof. Pau Olivella – Program Director
Pau Olivella (Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1989) is Associate Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, a CODE member, a Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professor, and MOVE Research Fellow. He specializes in insurance and health economics. He is Associate Editor of the Spanish Economic Review and the Journal of Health Economics and Section Editor for the Elsevier on-line Encyclopedia of Health Economics.
Personal Webpage
Email: pau.olivella@uab.es
Prof. Guillem López-Casasnovas – Scientific Director
Guillem López-Casasnovas (PhD, University of York, 1984) has been Professor at UPF since 1992. He is the founder of the Research Centre on Health and Economics (CRES) at UPF and was the director until 2005. He is President of the International Health Economics Association (IHEA), a member of the Directors Board of the Bank of Spain since 2005, and he serves as advisor of the Spanish Ministry of Health and Social Policy, the Catalan Health Ministry, and as expert of the World Health Organization (WHO) on health inequalities in the European Union, among others.
Personal Webpage
Email: guillem.lopez@upf.edu
Prof. Pere Ibern – Steering Committee Member
Pere Ibern is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and he is also member of the Center for Research on Health and Economics, a University Research Center. He is also Strategic Development Director at DKV Seguros. Pere Ibern obtained his MBA at ESADE (Escuela Superior de Administración de Empresas, Barcelona) and his PhD in Management Science at Universitat Ramon Llull. He also completed the Executive Program on Health Care Administration at Yale University. Later, he was visiting researcher at Duke University Center for Demographic Studies, and has been consultant for the World Bank.
Personal Webpage
Email: pere.ibern@upf.edu
Prof. Xavier Martínez-Giralt – Steering Committee Member
Xavier Martinez-Giralt is Professor of Economics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He earned his PhD in Economics in 1988 from Université Catholique de Louvain (CORE). His research interests span both industrial organization and health economics. In particular, the strategic modeling of providers interaction, the Cost-sharing of Pharmaceutical R&D, hospital performance and the private-public mix, and the diffusion of technology in the health care sector. Presently he is the Director of the Center for the Study of Organizations and Decisions in Economics (CODE), a research center in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona created in 1995 to promote high quality research in social choice theory and game theory, industrial organization, financial economics and macroeconomics.
Personal Webpage
Email: xavier.martinez.giralt@uab.es
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