Pauline Rutsaert

Associate Professor of Practice of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: MA Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium); PhD Cornell University (USA)

Research Areas: Industrial Organisation; Competition and Regulation; Industrial and Strategic Trade Policy; Innovation and R&D


Dr Pauline Rutsaert is Associate Professor of Practice of Economics at New York University, Abu Dhabi. She holds an MA in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and a PhD in Economics from Cornell University, NY (USA).

Her expertise is in the fields of Industrial Organisation, especially Competition and Regulatory Economics, Industrial and Strategic Trade Policy, Innovation and R&D.

Prior to joining NUYAD, she worked in the Netherlands and in the United Kingdom. She started her career in the Netherlands as a post-graduate research fellow at the Tinbergen Institute and then moved as consultant at the Netherlands Economic Institute. In the United Kingdom, she worked as Senior Economic Advisor at the Office of Communications (Ofcom) and as a Research Leader at RAND Europe in Cambridge. Since 2013, she has been a Fellow and College Lecturer at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, teaching Microeconomics and Industrial Organisation and holding Director of Studies and Tutor responsibilities.

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