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Biography
Bruno J. M. T. G. van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie (born 17 August 1968 in Uccle, Brussels, Belgium) is a Belgian economist. He is a Full-Time Professor at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (SBS-EM), Brussels, Belgium, of which he is the Dean since 2011, and a Senior Fellow at the Bruegel think-tank in Brussels.
Education
He graduated in economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 1995 and obtained a Master (DEA) in Econometrics at the ULB in 1994. In 1998, he obtained a PhD in Economics at the ULB.
Career
From September 1996 to September 1997, he was a research fellow at the ULB. From November 2005 to December 2007 he was chief economist at the European Patent Office (EPO). In October 1999, he became Associate Professor at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management of the ULB, holding the Solvay Chair of Innovation, where he is now a Full-Time Professor since October 2008. He was also a Honorary Professor at the School of Business, Management and Economics of the University of Sussex from Jan. 2010 to Dec. 2012.