Ludovico Carrino is Associate Professor of Public Economics at the University of Trieste and Visiting Senior Lecturer at King’s College London (Centre for Society and Mental Health). He has served as an external consultant in health economics and ageing for the World Health Organization (WHO Kobe Centre for Health Development). His research is in applied health economics, with a focus on long-term care, ageing and pensions, and the social determinants of health. He also works on welfare economics and multidimensional measurement of outcomes such as quality of life, job quality, and physical and mental frailty. He is a co-investigator on the Gateway to Global Aging Data project and leads its local unit at the University of Trieste. He is co-author of books on the economics of long-term care (Palgrave Macmillan; Cambridge University Press). His work has appeared in journals including Health Economics, Labour Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Social Science & Medicine, Health Policy, American Journal of Epidemiology, and the Journal of Gerontology.