Area Director Transport

Matthias Finger, born in 1955, a Swiss and French citizen, received his Ph.D. in Education in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Political Science in 1988, both from the University of Geneva. After having been Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, New York (1989-1991) and Associate Professor at Columbia University, New York (1992-1994), Matthias Finger was appointed Full Professor at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration in Lausanne in 1995. There he developped his research on the transformation of network industries in the postal, telecommunications, railways,  electricity, air transport, and water sectors. In his research, he reconciled the liberalization of these sectors with public service objectives by means of new regulatory arrangements, while at the same time promoting a more entrepreneurial behavior of the operators. Matthias Finger was appointed Full Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in October 2002, where he directs the Chair Management of Network Industries. Between 2003 and 2009 he was the Dean of EPFL's Continuing Education. He edits the Journal Competition and Regulation in Network Industries.