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Associate Professor, Business, Economics and Public Policy
Donald F. Hunter Professor in International Business
Christian is an Associate Professor of Strategy, Policy and International Business. After a brief stint in investment banking at the end his undergraduate studies in Germany, Christian came to Canada to pursue his Ph.D. at Toronto’s Rotman School of Management where his doctoral dissertation in 2011 garnered a record number of awards (incl. the Tom Easterbrook Fellowship, Hartle Award, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Albert Berry Prize, and Mary Jane Hendrie Memorial Prize).
Christian spent a decade at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management before joining Ivey in 2021. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and has held consulting positions with the World Bank, Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank. His research has been funded by the NSF and Canada’s SSHRC, and has been published in top econ journals such as Econometrica and the American Economic Review.
He teaches courses at the intersection of global macroeconomics, business strategy, and AI-driven disruption in Ivey's MBA and the Executive MBA programs, where the students have awarded him the Teaching Excellence Award. He designed and runs the open enrollment program "AI Strategy for Competitive Advantage" in Ivey’s Executive Education portfolio.
Christian co-founded three technology scale-ups in the domains of DaaS, media products / digital consumables, and AI readiness: LobbyIQ, Queen Street Analytics and intrepid Data Solutions.