Manuel García-Goñi

Manuel earned his Ph.D. in Economics and MA in Political Economy at Boston University, specialized in the fields of Health Economics and Industrial Organization. He has acted as Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, as Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University at Canberra, and as Visiting Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara, Universidade do Porto, and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Since 2004 Manuel has been Academic Secretary and Director of the Spanish Encounter of the Drug Industry that takes place annually at Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo in Santander, Spain. Between 2006 and 2012, he was a member of the Boards of Directors at the Spanish Health Economics Association, and the Chair of the Scientific Committee for the Spanish Health Economics Conference in 2012.

Manuel has published in peer reviewed economic journals such as Value in Health, Health Economics, Health Policy, Research Policy, European Journal of Health Economics, International Journal for Equity in Health, PLOS ONE, or Ageing & Society, among others. His research has been funded by institutions such as the European Commission, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (United States), the Institute for Fiscal Studies (Spain), or the Ramon Areces Foundation (Spain).

FIELDS OF INTEREST

• Primary: Health Economics, Public Economics
• Secondary: Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Innovation.

AWARDS ON RESEARCH AND FELLOWSHIPS

• Fellowship from the José Castillejo Program. Ministry of Science and Innovation. Spain. Support as a Visiting
• Scholar at Columbia University under the supervision of Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz. 2008-2009.
• Financial support for attending the European Conference of Health Economics (ECHE 2006). Budapest. Granted
• by the Spanish Health Economics Association.
• Financial support for attending the Econometric Society World Congress 2005. Econometric Society.
• “ALdE Jóvenes Investigadores” First Award to a Young Researcher presenting at VIII Encuentro de Economía
• Aplicada hold in Murcia, in June 2005. Asociación Libre de Economía (ALdE).
• Dissertation Research project award from the Health Care Financing Administration's Dissertation Fellowship
• Grants Program. This program awards each year to dissertation research projects on health economics to a
• maximum of 5-6 graduate students in prestigious doctoral programs in the United States. This program
• belongs to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Department of Health and Human Services,
• United States). 2002.
• XII Fellowship Program for graduate studies at foreign universities and research centers. Ramon Areces
• Foundation. 1998-2001.
• Dissertation Fellowship. Government of Navarre. Pamplona. 2001-2003.
• Graduate Fellowship, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, 1996-1998.