Mathias Dewatripont has a BA and MA in economics from ULB (1981 & 1982), and is a PhD holder from Harvard University since 1986. He is a professor at ULB since 1990 and was a visiting professor at the MIT between 1998 and 2011. His research focuses the theory of incentives and organisations. He also was research director of CEPR – Centre for Economics and Policy Research.