# Charles Wyplosz > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Charles_Wyplosz > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Charles_Wyplosz.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wyplosz > Source revision: 1340429295 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) French economist Charles Wyplosz Born 5 September 1947 (1947-09-05) (age 78) Vichy, France Academic background Alma mater Ecole Centrale Paris, Harvard University Academic work Discipline International Finance, Economic and Monetary Union Institutions Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva Website Information at IDEAS / RePEc **Charles Wyplosz** (born 5 September 1947 in Vichy, France) is a French-Swiss economist.[1] ## Life He earned an engineering degree from [Ecole Centrale Paris](/source/Ecole_Centrale_Paris) (1970), a Certificat Supérieur d'Études from [Institut Supérieur de Statistiques des Universités de Paris](/source/Universit%C3%A9_de_Paris) (1972), and a PhD in economics from [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University) (1978). From 1978 until 1996 he was assistant professor of economics, rising to full professor and associate dean at [INSEAD](/source/INSEAD). During the period 1986–1996 he was professor at the [École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales](/source/%C3%89cole_des_Hautes_%C3%89tudes_en_Sciences_Sociales). From 1995 to 2018 he was Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva and is now Emeritus Professor. He served as Director of the [International Centre for Monetary and Banking Studies](https://www.cimb.ch/) (ICMB) in Geneva, where he launched the series of [Geneva Reports](https://www.cimb.ch/geneva-reports/). He has been founding editor of *[Economic Policy](/source/Economic_Policy)* from 1984 to 2001, of the online [Covid Economics Papers](https://cepr.org/publications/covid-economics-papers) review, and served as Director of the International Macroeconomics Programme at the [Centre for Economic Policy Research](/source/Centre_for_Economic_Policy_Research) (CEPR) and as Co-Editor of [VoxEU](/source/VoxEU). He has served as advisor to various governments (Russia, Cyprus, France) 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](/source/Macroeconomics), [exchange rates](/source/Exchange_rates) and the [labor market](/source/Labor_market). He has worked extensively on monetary policy, especially the [European Monetary System](/source/European_Monetary_System), the [Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union](/source/Economic_and_Monetary_Union_of_the_European_Union), [financial crisis](/source/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](/source/Legion_d'Honneur) by the [President of France](/source/President_of_France).[2] ## Selected publications - *Macroeconomics: a European Text* by [Michael C. Burda](/source/Michael_C._Burda) and Charles Wyplosz (Oxford UP, 7th ed 2017 [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780198737513](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780198737513)) - *The Economics of European Integration* by [Richard E. Baldwin](/source/Richard_Baldwin_(economist)) and Charles Wyplosz (McGraw Hill, 7th ed 2022, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781526849434](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781526849434))) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Wyplosz, Charles. ["Wyplosz"](https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/). *graduateinstitute.ch*. [Archived](https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/academic-departments/faculty/charles-wyplosz) from the original on 2026-01-28. Retrieved 2026-01-28. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["L'intégralité de la promotion du 14 Juillet (2e partie)"](http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2008/07/13/01016-20080713ARTWWW00185-l-integralite-de-la-promotion-du-juillet-e-partie.php). Le Figaro. 13 July 2008. ## External links - [Profile](https://web.archive.org/web/20140221174118/http://graduateinstitute.ch/home/study/faculty/professors.html/_/people/wyplosz) at [https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/academic-departments/faculty/charles-wyplosz](https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/academic-departments/faculty/charles-wyplosz) - Personal website: [https://www.charleswyplosz.info/](https://www.charleswyplosz.info/) - Curriculum vitae: [https://www.charleswyplosz.info/_files/ugd/60d1ea_1096b895b236487faac202b666dc15e9.pdf](https://www.charleswyplosz.info/_files/ugd/60d1ea_1096b895b236487faac202b666dc15e9.pdf) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat National United States France BnF data Czech Republic Spain Portugal Netherlands Norway Latvia Greece Korea Poland Israel Belgium Croatia Academics CiNii ORCID Mathematics Genealogy Project Scopus Google Scholar MathSciNet People Trove Deutsche Biographie DDB Other IdRef Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Charles Wyplosz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wyplosz) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wyplosz?action=history)). 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