Argentine. He is Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University, with fields in health economics and industrial organization. Maceira received his bachelor degree in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), and completed his M.A. in Economics at the Di Tella Institute in Argentina. He develops teaching activities at the B.A. Program and at the Master Program in Economics of the UBA, at the Master in Public Policy Design at FLACSO (Latin American University for Social Sciences), as well as at the Program of Clinical Effectiveness of the Italian Hospital and the UBA’s School of Public Health. Maceira was recipient of scholarships from the Ford Foundation, the Government of Japan Scholarship Program, the Rosestein-Rodan Scholarship Program (Boston University) and the Adenauer Foundation. He is currently Senior Researcher at the Center for the Study of the State and Society (CEDES) and Associate Researcher of the investigative branch of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET). He is also Member of the Directive Board of the Master Program in Health Care Administration of the Latin American Center for Human Economy (CLAEH) in Uruguay and of the Health Research Forum for Argentina: 10/90 Gap (FISA). Maceira is former Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA), as well as former Board Member of the Political Economy Argentine Association (AAEP). He is a grant award winner of the Alliance for Health Policy and System Research at the WHO, the Global Development Network (GDN), and Salud Investiga, the research institute of the Argentine Ministry of Health. In August 2009 he became President of the International Society for Equity in Health (ISEqH).