Born in Halmstad (Sweden), I received my PhD in Business Administration from Lund University School of Economics and Management in 1991. In 1989, I was employed by the Swedish Institute for Health Economics (IHE) in Lund, and between 1992 and 2007 I was director of the same institute with overall responsibilities for research, consultancy and conference/seminar activities. In 2007, I became adjunct professor at the Department of Business Administration and Institute for Economic Research, and since 2014 I have been a full professor at the same department. My research interest focuses on governance and management in health care services. More specifically I have conducted studies on incentives and resource allocation in health care, alternative methods to incentivize health care providers, performance measurement in health care, preferences related to consumer/patient choice, organisation of primary care, and the use of health economic evaluations and cost-effectiveness criteria by health care decision-makers. I have published about 200 books, reports and articles in a wide array of scientific journals, including Health Policy, BMC Health Services Research, BMC Family Practice, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Public Economics, Health Economics, European Journal of Health Economics, Pharmacoeconomics, WHO Bulletin, British Journal of Surgery, BJGP Open, New England Journal of Medicine, International Journal of Integrated Care, and Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health care.

I was employed by the Swedish Institute for Health Economics (IHE) in Lund, and between 1992 and 2007 I was the director of the same institute with overall responsibilities for research, consultancy and conference/seminar activities. Between 2003 and 2009 I was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board to the Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health care (SBU). I have been a scientific advisor to the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen). Between 2011 and 2021 I was a member of the board (vice chairmen since 2013, chairmen from 2015) of the Swedish Agency for Health and Care Services Analysis (Myndigheten för Vårdanalys). I am a member of the board of KEFU and the Swedish Academy of Business and Management (FEKIS). I have worked as a consultant and advisor for a number of Swedish and international organizations, including the World Bank and WHO. I was co-writer of the World Health Report 2000: Health Systems. Measuring performance. I have been an expert in several Swedish government investigations, including senior advisor to the parliamentary comittee on national governance in health care (Vårdansvarskommittén).

My teaching responsibilities focus on lecturing and supervision of thesis-writing at the masters level programme in Accounting and Finance. I am the course director for "Performance Measurement and Management" (7,5 credits) and "Innovation and Management Control" (5 credits).