Charles Wyplosz | |
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Born |
5 September 1947 (age 69) Vichy, France |
Nationality | French |
Institution | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva |
Field | International Finance, Economic and Monetary Union |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
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Charles Wyplosz (born September 5, 1947 in Vichy, France) is a French economist. He is an editor of the International Centre for Economic Policy Research's VoxEU and is currently the director of the International Centre for Monetary and Banking Studies (ICMB) and Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. He was a founding managing editor of Economic Policy.
From 1978 until 1996 he was assistant professor of economics and associate dean at INSEAD and during the period 1986–1996 he was professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Since 1995 he is Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
He has been editor of Economic Policy since 1984. He has served as advisor to various governments (Russia, Cyprus, France) as well as to numerous organisations such the IMF, the World Bank, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Asian Development Bank. He served as Director of the International Macroeconomics Programme at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
His areas of research are macroeconomics, exchange rates and the labor market. He has worked extensively on money especially the European Monetary System, the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union, financial crisis, and capital mobility and economic transformation of former communist economies.