Josep Figueras

Born in Medinyà, Girona, Spain, Josep was educated at the University of Barcelona where he received his medical degree with honors in 1983, after which he specialized in family medicine in 1987 at the University of Valencia.

He proceeded to move to the United Kingdom where he obtained a Master of Public Health from the University of Leeds, and a MSc and Ph.D. (econ) in health planning and financing from the London School of Economics and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, wherefore he worked as a lecturer and MSc course director in Health Services Management and Policy.

[3] His research focuses on comparative health system and policy analysis.

[5] Figueras is an honorary fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine (United Kingdom) and was Director of the MSc in Health Services Management and lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

In 2006 he received the Andrija Stampar Medal for excellence in Public Health[6] and a Doctorate Honoris Causa from Semmelweis University in 2016.