Bio – Mathias Dewatripont September 2018

Mathias Dewatripont holds a BA (1981) and MA (1982) in economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University (1986). His main research area is the theory of incentives and organizations, with applications to banking and innovation. Since 1990, he has been Professor of Economics at ULB (part-time between 2011 and 2017). Between 1998 and 2011, he was part-time (7 weeks a year) Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Research Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Fellow of the Econometric Society, laureate of the 1998 Francqui Prize and of the 2003 Yrjo Jahnsson Prize for Economics, he was President of the European Economic Association in 2005. He was member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council between 2005 and 2012. He was Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studies (1990-94) and one of the three Programme co-chairs of the 2000 World Congress of the Econometric Society. He is member of the Académie Royale De Belgique and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science. He was co-Director of ECARES (1991-2002) and, upon the creation of the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, he was its Vice-President (2008-2009), President (2009-2010) and then Dean (2010-2011). He was outside Director of CGER-Bank (1992-99), and he was Executive Director of the National Bank of Belgium between May 2011 and May 2017 (and its Vice-Governor between June 2014 and March 2015), being its representative on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (2011-2017), the Board of Supervisors of the European Banking Authority (2011-2014) and the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank (2014-2017).