Course Mentors

Cédric Dupont
PROFESSOR, POLITICAL SCIENCE, GRADUATE INSTITUTE

Cédric Dupont is Professor of Political Science and Director of Executive Education at the Graduate Institute. He has been a member of the faculty of the Graduate Institute since 1995 and has also served as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California at Berkeley (1996-1997). He is a Senior Research Fellow of the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) at the University of California at Berkeley and an Associate Editor for Europe of the journal Business and Politics. He is a specialist in international political economy with a focus on trade and monetary integration processes and related governance issues. He also specialises in the analysis of strategic interactions between actors (with the use of game theory). Professor Dupont has a long experience in teaching professionals, often in collaboration with international organisations such as the WTO, and has consulted with leading multinational corporations on non-market strategies inside regional trading arrangements, with a particular focus on Western Europe and the Asia-Pacific.

Cédric Tille
PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, GRADUATE INSTITUTE

Cédric Tille is Professor of International Economics. Before joining the Graduate Institute in autumn 2007, he was an economist at the International Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for nine years. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Swiss Society for Economics and Statistics. He holds a PhD in Economics from Princeton University, and an MSc and licence in Economics from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Professor Tille's main area of research focuses on the determinants of international portfolio choices and international capital flows. It includes both theoretical contributions towards adapting economic models to reflect financial globalisation, as well as applied work exploring the linkages between asset prices and external indebtedness, as well as the impact of financial globalisation on countries' external transactions. He also worked on the prominent role of some currencies in international transactions, as well as the modelling of economic policy in open economies. Professor Tille has extensive experience in teaching and presenting current issues in international economics, both to student audiences as well as to senior policy-makers.