Tim Ensor

Biography

Tim Ensor is a health economist with 18 years of experience in teaching, research and consultancy in low and middle income countries. Prior to joining OPM he was head of the International Programme at Centre for Health Economics, University of York and he also spent two years as senior economist in the Health Economics Unit, Ministry of Health Bangladesh. Most of his research and consultancy relates to health financing including sources of funding, allocation, finance, costing of services, informal health care markets and equity analysis. He has written extensively, with more than 70 publications, on health financing issues in academic journals, lay publications, research papers and reports for funding agencies. He is regularly asked to advise international agencies including World Bank, EU, DFID, WHO and ADB.  He trained in economics at the LSE and Sussex and then undertook PhD at University of York. He holds a part-time position as senior research fellow at the University of Aberdeen.