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Position(s) at the Institute
Professor,
International Economics
Profile
PhD, Harvard University
Charles Wyplosz is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva where he is Director of the International Centre of Money and Banking Studies (ICMB).
Previously, he has served as Associate Dean for Reserach and Development at INSEAD and Director of the PhD program in Economics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales in Paris. He has also been Director of the International Macroeconomics Programme of CEPR, the leading European network of economists.
His main research areas include transparency of monetary policy, European monetary integration, fiscal policy discipline, economic transisition and current regional integration in various parts of the world. He is the co-author of a leading textbook on Macroeconomics and of a textbook on European economic integration. He was a founding Managing Editor of the review Economic Policy. He serves on several boards of professional reviews and European research centres. He is a regular columnist in such newspapers as the Financial Times, Le Monde, Libération, Le Temps, Finanz und Wirtschaft, and Handelsblatt.
Currently a member of the Group of Independent Economic Advisors to the President of the European Commission, of the Panel of Experts of the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee and the "Bellagio Group", Charles Wyplosz is an occasional consultant to the European Commission, the IMF, the World Bank, the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank. He has been a member of the "Conseil d'Analyse Economique" which reports to the Prime Minister of France, of the French Finance Minister's "Commission des Comptes de la Nation" and has advised the government of the Russian Federation.
Charles Wyplosz holds degrees in Engineering and Statistics from Paris and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.
Areas of expertise
The International Monetary System ; European Monetary Union ; Currency Crises.
Selected publications
Information on books, working papers and articles by Professor Wyplosz can be found on his personal website.
Fellowship and activities
Policy Involvement: Member of the President Barroso's Group of Economic Policy Advisors and of the Bellagio Group. Served as consultant to the IMF, the World Bank and other development banks, the UN, the European Parliament, various central banks, the European Commission, the Russian government.
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