Wouter Hendrik Dessein
Eli Ginzberg Professor of Finance and Economics; Chair of Economics Division
Economics
B.S. in Management and Applied Sciences (Handelsingenieur), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 1997; M.A., University of Toulouse, 1997; Ph.D, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; 2000
Joined CBS in 2008
Office:
625
Uris
Phone:
212-851-1805
E-mail:
wd2179@gsb.columbia.edu
Fax:
212-316-9219
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Prior to joining the Columbia Business School faculty in July 2008, Wouter was an associate professor of economics at the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business from 2005-2008, where he taught Competitive Strategy and Organizational Strategy. He earned a Bachelor in management and applied sciences from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1997 and a Ph.D. in economics from Universite Libre de Bruxelles and Toulouse University in 2000, after which he became an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. Wouter's research interests center on the economics of organizations, specifically centralization versus decentralization, incentive design, the organizational structure of multi-divisional firms and the impact of competition on business organizations. His research has been published in leading journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Finance. He has also served as a research affiliate for the Center for Economic Policy Research and as an Associate Editor for the Review of Network Economies and the Journal of the European Economic Association.