Professor of Health Economics, London School of Economics

Joan Costa i Font is Professor of Health Economics and Director of the Ageing and Health Incentives Laboratory (AHIL) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has been a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University and a policy evaluation fellow at Sciences Po Paris, as well as a Marie Curie Fellow at LSE. He is the author of the WHO report on global financing of care (2022), the IDB report on financing dependency in Latin American countries (2022) and the National Bureau of Economic Research report on financing care in Spain (2023). He has published more than a hundred publications in high impact international journals, and several books in publishing houses of international relevance. He is also a researcher affiliated to the two main European networks of economists: IZA (Bonn) and CESIfo (Munich).