Eduardo Costa is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Economics at the Department of Engineering and Management of Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon) and a researcher at CEGIST. His research is focused on Health Economics, particularly in topics related with the sustainability and efficiency of public health spending, competition in the pharmaceutical market, and on the economic impact of health professionals. He is the former president of the Portuguese Association for Health Economics. Currently, he is an expert of the National Health Technology Assessment Commission and a member of the National NHS Reference Centers Commission. He works also as an advisor for the Portuguese Minister for Health, on economic and financial issues. He has significant consulting and research experience in national and international projects on health economics and policy. He holds a PhD in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics, and was a visiting researcher at the Boston University and at the Harvard School of Public Health. He also worked as a research fellow at the Lancaster University.