Yves Flückiger
Yves Flückiger is the director of the Department for Political Economy at the University of Geneva and a vice-rector of the university (appointed 2007). He has made important contributions to a number of Swiss federal commissions, including advising on migration policy and unemployment benefits. In 1996 he became a member of the Swiss Competition Commission, and in 2003 was appointed its vice-president.
Yves Flückiger’s primary and secondary education was in Geneva. He attended the University of Geneva, graduating in 1978 with a degree in political economy. In 1982 he obtained a degree in sociology from the same university, followed by a PhD in economics (awarded summa cum laude). He spent a year as a visiting scholar at the University of Harvard in Massachusetts, USA, and a year as a research associate at the Institute of Economics and Statistics in Oxford, UK. In 1990 he joined the faculty at the University of Geneva. He has successfully combined his teaching and research at the university with stints as invited professor at the University of Bujumbura, Burundi, and at the University of Fribourg. He has also taught at Deakin University, Australia.
He has taught classes, delivered lectures and led seminars, inspiring university students of all ages, from first-year undergraduates through to doctoral postgraduates, and combining several disciplines: economics, business studies, sociology, political science, geography, economic history and law. He is an experienced supervisor of work at diploma, degree and master’s level, and of doctoral theses.
He has combined his love of teaching with a dedication to research, publishing over 110 articles aimed at an international readership, notably in the following fields: industrial organization and the politics of competition; impact of migration on wages; analysis of wage differentials; economic analysis of unemployment; effectiveness of economic policies on reintegration into the workplace; and the economics of education.
