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Associate Professor, Business, Economics and Public Policy
Donald F. Hunter Professor in International Business
Christian studies how structural change reshapes business models.
After a brief stint in investment banking in his native Germany, Christian came to Canada to pursue his Ph.D. at Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, where his dissertation garnered a record number of awards (Tom Easterbrook Fellowship, Hartle Award, OGS, Al Berry Prize, and Mary Jane Hendrie Memorial). He spent a decade as a professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, before returning to Ontario and joining Ivey in 2021.
Christian is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and has consulted for the World Bank, Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. 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 and business strategy in Ivey's Executive MBA programs, where the students awarded him the Teaching Excellence Award. His degree teaching draws on the topics explored in his textbook, Spilled Soma: A Not-So-Dismal Guide to Macroeconomics and Geopolitics.
He co-founded three technology scale-ups in DaaS, media products, and AI adoption tooling: LobbyIQ, Queen Street Analytics and Intrepid Data Solutions. Drawing on this experience, he runs workshops on technology disruption and AI-strategy, including the open enrollment program "AI Strategy for Competitive Advantage" in Ivey’s Exec Ed programs in Toronto and Hong Kong.