Charles Wyplosz
Charles Wyplosz is a French-Swiss economist. His jewish parents, Jakub Wyplosz and Felicia Zanger, had moved to France in 1946 after having survived the holocaust in Poland. His father was an engineer, who earned his degree in Germany and trained in aeronautics in France before the Second World War. In France, after the war, he ran a plastics factory in Vichy. His mother was a homemaker. He had a brother, born in Warsaw, who worked as a surgeon in France.
Life
He earned an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris, a Certificat Supérieur d'Études from Institut Supérieur de Statistiques des Universités de Paris, and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.From 1978 until 1996 he was assistant professor of economics, rising to full professor and associate dean at INSEAD. During the period 1986–1996 he was professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. From 1995 to 2018 he was Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva and is now Emeritus Professor. He was also a professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sociales in Paris from 1988 to 1996. He served as Director of the in Geneva, where he launched the series of . He has been founding editor of Economic Policy from 1984 to 2001, of the online review, and served as Director of the International Macroeconomics Programme at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and as Co-Editor of VoxEU.
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He has served as advisor to various governments as well as to numerous international organisations such the IMF, the World Bank, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Asian Development Bank. He is a frequent speaker and a regular columnist for several newspapers in France, Switzerland and the UK.
His areas of research are macroeconomics, exchange rates and the labor market. He has worked extensively on monetary policy, 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. He has published many articles in professional reviews and books, including two widely used textbooks listed below.
He has been awarded the Legion d'Honneur by the President of France.