Professor Joan Costa-Font (he/him) is a Professor of Health Economics, where he leads the Ageing and Health Incentives Lab (AHIL), and co-leads  the perceptions of inequality program at the International Inequalities Institute and Ageing@LSE group. He is affiliated with the two major global economics research networks, namely IZA, and CESifo. He specialises in the economics of healthy ageing and behavioural economics and behavioural political economy of health care and health disadvantage.

Before joining as a visiting fellow at the CHW, Joan has been a recipient of a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2001), a Harkness Fellowship (2012) based at Harvard University and a Policy Evaluation Fellowship based at Sciences Po (2022). In addition to working as a consultant for several national and international organizations, including the House of Lords, the NIHR, Public Health England, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the World Health Organization, he has led multiple research projects as the primary investigator. Joan serves on the Scientific Committee of the Brocher Foundation (Geneva), the Fondazione Cariplo (Milan), and the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Economics for Environment, Climate Change, and Health (WHO TAG-EconECH).