Mathias Dewatripont

About Mathias Dewatripont

Mathias François Dewatripont (born 27 December 1959) is a Belgian economist and professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He studied economics at the ULB, and obtained a PhD at Harvard University (United States) in 1986 (under the supervision of Eric Maskin and Andreu Mas-Colell). He is a member of the Economic Advisory Group for Competition Policy of the DG Competition (European Commission), since 2004. He is a member of European Commission President José Manuel Durão Barroso's Group of Economic Policy Analysis, since 2005. In 2005, he was President of the European Economic Association. He is a member of the Econometric Society and Research Director at CEPR. He is one of the 22 members of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council. He is member of the Académie Royale de Belgique and has been elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (April 2009). In 1998, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Human Sciences, and in 2003 he received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award. He was Chairman of the Oxera Economic Council.