Born in Ciutadella, Menorca, married and with three children. Bachelor of Economics (with Honours, 1978) and Bachelor of Laws (1979) at the Universitat de Barcelona, he earned his Ph.D. in Public Economics at the University of York (United Kingdom, Ph.D. 1984). He has taught at the Universitat de Barcelona, and has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Social and Economic Research (UK), at the University of Sussex, and at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University (USA).

Since June 1992 he is Professor of Economics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona. He has been deputy rector of Economics and International Relations and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the same university between 2000 and 2004. In 1996 he co-founded, together with Vicente Ortún, the Centre for Research in Health and Economics (CRES-UPF), an institution that he directed until 2006 and, again, is directing since 2015. He is currently Director, Senior Research Fellow and member of the Governing Council of the same centre. He is the co-director of the Master of Public Management (UPF-UAB-EAPC), was the director of the Master of Health Economics & Policy at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) until 2013, and until 2015 he directed the Global Health Leadership Forum Executive Program, organized jointly by CRES-UPF and the Public health School of the University of Berkeley.

His main research interests include the measurement of the efficiency of the public sector, the changing role of the public sector in general (and in the health sector in particular), fiscal balances, the financing of local government treasuries, health economics, dependency and intergenerational balances.

From 2005 and until 2017 he was an independent adviser of the Governing Council of the Banco de España, and in Catalunya he was a member of the Advisory Council for Economic Recovery and Growth (CAREC) and the Advisory Council for Sustainability and Development of the Healthcare System (CASOST) between 2011 and 2015. He has also been a member of the Advisory Board of the Ministerio de Sanidad (from  2000 and until 2017). He was President of the International Health Economics Association (IHEA) between 2007 and 2011 and has also served as an expert advisor for the World Health Organization (WHO) on health inequalities in the European Region.

He is member of the Advisory Council of the Conselleria de Salut and the Conselleria d’Economia of Catalunya, and the Conselleria de Salut of Illes Balears (from 2001). He is part of the expert committee for advising the Govern de Catalunya, in the management of the Next Generation Funds and in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, he is President of the Advisory Council on Economics Policy of Catalunya. He is also part of different committees for advising the Gobierno de España, for example in terms of fiscal reforms.

Phone: (+34) 93 542 16 61
E-mail: [email protected]
Personal web: https://www.upf.edu/web/lopez-casasnovas/home

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