Mathias Dewatripont is Professor of Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles and Director, European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES).

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, 1986. His general research area is the theory of incentives and organisations, with applications to banking and corporate finance as well as to transition economics.

He was Managing Editor of RES (1990-94) and is still member of its Editorial Board. He was Associate Editor of Econometrica (1996-99), is a Fellow and Council Member of the Econometric Society, and one of the three Programme co-chairs of its next World Congress (Seattle 2000). He is Research Director of CEPR, and was outside Director of CGER-Bank (1992-99). He is laureate of the 1998 Francqui Prize. He is part-time Visiting Professor at MIT, and is professor at ULB where he teaches contract theory, industrial organisation and banking and finance.