Béatrice Dumont

Béatrice Dumont is Professor of economics at Sorbonne University Paris and Director of the Department of Economics at the College of Europe. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at DG GROWTH and a Research Fellow at the Climate Economics Chair. She is also a member of the scientific committee of the Global Competition Law Center (GCLC). Between 2006 and 2009, she was a member of the prospective unit of the French Prime Minister on intellectual property rights (IPRs). She studied economics at the Universities of Aachen in Germany, Edinburgh in Scotland and Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne where she received a PhD in economics. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Chicago and at MERIT (Maastricht University). Her research focuses on the economics of innovation and IPRs, competition policy, green techs and the economics of European integration.