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Prof. Luc E. WEBER

Economist
Honorary Professor and Rector emeritus of the University of Geneva
Founding President the "Glion Colloquium"
Expert on higher education policy
Luc WEBER

CAREER IN BRIEF

ECONOMIST, 
PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS

  • Secretary General, and later member of the Swiss federal Commission of Expert for Stabilization Policy (Kommission für Konjunkturfragen)

  • Recipient of a four-year fellowhip of the Swiss National Science Foundation; visiting felow Institute for Economic and Social Research, University of York (UK)

  • Professor of Public Economics and Fiinance, University of Geneva

  • Member of two Swiss federal expert committees of the Swiss government and  expert committees of the  Swiss National Science Foundation 

  • Vice-Chairman of the International Institute of Public Finance

  • Member of the Board of the Jean Monnet Foundation in Lausanne

  • Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) , the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and the University of Fribourg (UNIFR) 

FOUNDING PRESIDENT
THE GLION COLLOQUIUM

(a global think tank focused on the future of higher education

whixh was founded in 1998)

 

  • From 1998 to 2021, he organised 12 colloquia with colleagues from the USA (Werner Hirsch and Jim Duderstadt), the UK (Howard Newby) and the Netherlands (Bert van der Zwaan)

  • He also edited and publisched 12 books with the same colleagues

  • Currently, he is on the Board as Founding President and Treasurer​

HONOURS

He has received the following honours:

Doctor honoris Causa, 

  • Doctor honoris causa, Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve

  • Doctor honoris causa, University of Neuchâtel

  • Associate Member of the Royal Belgian Academy

  • Recipient of the Medal of the University of Geneva

DOWNLOADABLE DOCUMENTS
SWISS UNIVERSITY LEADER

  • Vice-Rector (1982-1985), University of Geneva

  • Rector (President) (1991-1995), University of Geneva

  • President of the Swiss University Conference (CUS/SUK)

  • President of the Swiss Rectors’ Conference

  • Consul of the Swiss Rectors’ Conference for international affairs

INTERNATIONAL
UNIVERSITY LEADER

  • Swiss representative to the Confederation of European Rectors’ Conferences in Brussels

  • Founding Board member of the European University Association (EUA) in Brussels

  • Member and then chairman of its Research Working Group

  • Vice-President of the International University Association (IUP) in Paris

  • Member and President of the Steering Committee for Higher Education and Research (CDESR) of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg

EXPERT IN HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY AND MANAGEMENT

  • Conducted over 40 evaluations of universities, faculties and university consortia for the Europen University Association, the German Rectors’conference, the German Research Council, the french Evaluation Committee and individual universities

  • Served as the Swiss representative in The Six Nations projects (China, Japan, Singapore, United States, Germany and Switzerland

  • Member of the small working group which prepared the merger of the European University Conference (CRE) and the Confederation of European Rctors’ Conferences to form the European University Association (EUA)

  • Academic expert in the small governmental working group that planned the creation of the University of Luxembourg

  • Member and then Chairman of the Strategic Committee of the University of Strasbourg

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