Matthias Finger

Deputy Director of the Transport Area
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Matthias Finger is an Emeritus Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, since 2020), a Professor at Istanbul Technical University (Istanbul, Türkiye, since 2018), and a Part-time Professor at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy, since 2010).

After having been Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, New York (1989-1991) and Associate Professor at Columbia University, New York (1992-1994), Matthias Finger appointed Professor at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration in Lausanne in 1995. Between 2002 and 2020 he held the Swiss Post Chair in Management of Network Industries at EPFL. Over his career he has specialized in policy and regulation of infrastructures (network industries) in the areas of communications, energy, and transport. More recently, he is applying his expertise to what he calls the „new network industries“, i.e., digital platforms, data spaces and digital infrastructures more generally. Matthias is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, the Deputy Director of the Florence School of Regulation’s Transport Area, and the Director of the Istanbul Center for Regulation. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science in 1988 and a Ph.D. in Education in 1986, both from the University of Geneva.

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