Stavros Petrou is an academic research lead in Health Economics and professor of Health Economics at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. Having previously held posts as a health economist at the University of Oxford (1997–2010) and Professor of Health Economics at the University of Warwick (2010–2019), he returned to Oxford in July 2019. He is one of only two health economists to have held an MRC Senior Non-Clinical Research Fellowship. He has been an NIHR Senior Investigator since 2017 (term two commencing in 2021). He has served as a core member of the Department of Health’s Policy Research Programme Commissioning Panel, a member of NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research funding panels, and currently serves on several external committees and editorial boards. He serves as a mentor to mid-career academic researchers through the Academy of Medical Sciences. During his career, he has published over 250 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has recently co-authored several studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, BMJ, and JAMA. He has authored a number of research studies within the field of health economic evaluation that have directly impacted healthcare policies at a national level.