Prof Bruno van Pottelsberghe

Prof Bruno van Pottelsberghe studied business economics, econometrics and international relations at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), obtaining a PhD in 1998, after visiting research positions in METI (Tokyo, 1995) and Columbia university (NYC, 1996). In his alma mater: From 2011-2017 and then from 2021 to 2024 he was the Dean of the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, a faculty of ULB. From 2014 to 2024 van Pottelsberghe has been the academic director of the Executive MBA programme and since 2004 he has served as advisor to the Rector and chairman of the ULB Valuation Committee. He is the initiator and co-founder of the international university network Quantitative Techniques for Economics and Management Network (QTEM), and has performed numerous peer review visits for international accreditations, and also gained non-academic experience at the OECD in Paris (1997-1999) and as Chief Economist of the European Patent Office (2005-2007). Prof Bruno van Pottelsberghe's main research fields are economics of innovation, patent systems and technology transfer. He is the author or co-author of more than 60 scientific articles, as well as the author, co-author or co- editor of five books. He has been the Rector of Corvinus University of Budapest since August 2024.