Areas of Interest:

• Economics of Innovation & Technological Change
• Industrial Organization
• Macroeconomics
• Political Economy

Education:

• Post-doctoral study, University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University, USA, 1990
• Ph.D., Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 1982
• M.S., Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 1976

Experience:

• Full Professor of Economics, School of Business, University of Applied Sciences of Northwestern Switzerland, 1997-present
• Dean and Professor, School of Business Administration, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco, 2004-2005
• Visiting Scholar in the Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank Group, Washington DC, Winter 2003-2004

Latest Publications:

• “Picking Winners and Losers: An Empirical Analysis of Industrial Policy in Morocco”, in: Ahmed Galal (Ed.), Industrial Policy in the Middle East and North Africa. Rethinking the Role of the State. American University in Cairo Press: Cairo, 2007
• “Copyright-based Industries in Arab Countries, in: Barrowclough, D. el al. (editors), Creative Industries and Developing Countries: Voice, Choice and Economic Growth. Routledge Studies in Contemporary Political Economy, 2007
• Employment Impacts of Cleaner Production: Case of Switzerland, in: Rennings, K. and T. Zwick (eds.), Employment Impacts of Cleaner Production. Publication Series of the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany, 2003