• Member of the Board Directors of the Spanish Central Bank since 2005
  • President of the International Health Economics Association (2007-2011)
  • Member of Centre for Research in Health and Economics (CRES) Government Council. He was the CRES's co-founder and first director
  • Professor of Economics, UPF (1992)
  • BA: in Economics, Barcelona (1978)
  • BA: in Law, Barcelona (1979)
  • PhD: in Economics, York (1984)
  • Research fields: Public Finance, Fiscal Policy, Health Economics