Joël Arthur Kiendrébéogo is a medical doctor and health economist with 15 years of professional experience. After clinical medical practice at health district level, Joël started his career as a health economist in Chad in 2012 as deputy manager of the performance-based financing (RBF) pilot project in the country. Joël then worked as a researcher at the Centre MURAZ (Burkina Faso) from 2014 to 2017, as an Early Childhood Development (ECD) fellow at the World Bank office in Burkina Faso from 2017 to 2019, as a lecturer and researcher at the University Joseph Ki-Zerbo in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) since 2017, and as a researcher at Research for Health and Development (RESADE) in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) since 2019. In 2024, Dr Kiendrébéogo was appointed Technical Secretary for Health Financing Reform at the Ministry of Health of Burkina Faso. During his career, Joël has collaborated with several national and international research teams and has been a consultant for many international organizations. Joël’s areas of expertise and interest include health financing, health economics, health policy and systems analysis and reform, and health economic evaluations.