Honorary Professor at the University of Geneva

• 30 years of teaching and research as a full Professor at the Department of economics of the University of Geneva; main subjects: public economics, public finance, economics of education & stabilization policy
• Invited professor at the University of Lausanne, Fribourg and at the University of California, Los Agenes (UCLA)
• Expert in various Commities at federal and regional levels, in particular Member of the Swiss Economic Advisers, Member of the federal expert Committee on Stabilization policy and Vice-President of the Expert Committee for economic and social statistic

Publications

See the sections:
• BOOKS
• OTHER PUBLICATIONS7CONTRIBUTIONS

See also:

… to University and governemental organizations

• President of the Swiss Universities Rectors Conference Swiss Universities
• Founding board member of EUA (European University Association). EUA
• Vice-President and treasurer of IAU (International Association of Universities). IAU
• President of the Steering Committee for Higher Education and Research of the Councile of Europe

… to national higher education systems and to institutions

• With the World Bank, multiyear expertise in Tunisia and Vietnam as well as short missions in Azerbaïdjan, and Poland
• With the Council of Europe, mission in Bulgaria, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Moldova/li>
• For the Ministry of Higher Education and Research of Luxembourg, co-founder of the University of Luxemburg

more than 40 Evaluations & accreditations

• Catholic University of Louvain (UCL)
• Free university of Brussels (ULB)
• Universities of Strasbourg (France)
• Tohoku University, Sendai, (Japan)
• Trinity College Dublin, (Ireland)
• Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany)
• Institut d’études politiques (Sciences Po) (France)
• Paris V Descartes (France)

Professional and scientific training

• Master degree in Economics and business studies as well as in Political sciences at the University of Lausanne
• PhD in Economics at the University of Lausanne
• 4 years scientific collaborator at the Department of Economic affairs, Swiss Government in Bern, the last 2 years as General Secretary of the Swiss expert Committee on Stabilization policy
• 1 year personal leave to write the PhD thesis
• Beneficiary of a 4 years research grant; visiting scolar at the Institute of Social and Economic Research of the University of York (UK)

Curriculum vitae and publication list

Awards

• 1987 Recipient of the Medal of the University of Geneva for exceptional services as Vice-Rector
• 2006 Recipient of a Dr Honoris Causa of the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL)
• Nomination as Associate Member of the belgium Royal Academy
• Recipient of a Dr Honoris Causa of the University of Neuchâtel for its contribution to the teachnig of Public economics and for his engagement in favor of an economic policy based on analyzed facts