Andrew Jones, PhD (York), Professor of Economics at the University of York, UK, where he was Head of the Department of Economics and Related Studies between January 2011 and september 2015. He was responsible for the running of the MSc in Health Economics at York between 1994 and 2011. During that time there were over 500 graduates from more than 70 different countries. He has also supervised 23 PhD students. He is a joint editor of Health Economics. He edited the Elgar Companion to Health Economics which was published in 2006 with 50 concise chapters that review the state-of-the-art in the field.