Executive Team

Michel Goldman’s scientific achievements resulted in an ISI Highly Cited Scientist nomination in 2006 by the Thomson Institute for Scientific Information. In 1992, Michel Goldman received the Medical Prize Lucien Steinberg (shared with Pr. Peter Piot) and in 2000 the Quinquiennal Prize of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research for Clinical Sciences. He held the Francqui Chair at the University of Namur in 1999, at the University of Liège in 2003, and the Spinoza chair at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2001. In 2007, Michel Goldman was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Lille, France.

Between 1998 and 2011, he was part-time Visiting Professor at MIT and Research Director of CEPR. Laureate of the 1998 Francqui Prize and of the 2003 Yrjo Jahnsson Prize for Economics, he was a founding member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (2007-2012). He is a member of the Académie Royale De Belgique and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science. He was also Chairman and then Dean of SBS-EM (2009-2011).
He has widely published in the areas of contract theory, organization economics, innovation, and banking and finance, including Contract Theory (with Patrick Bolton, MIT Press 2005), “Academic Freedom, Private-sector Focus, and the Process of Innovation” (with Philippe Aghion and Jeremy Stein, Rand Journal of Economics, 2008) and “Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation” (with Fiona Murray, Philippe Aghion, Julian Kolev and Scott Stern, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016).

She holds a Master Degree in Biomedical Science (Ghent University, Belgium), a Master Degree in General Management (Vlerick Business School, Belgium), Master Degree in Intellectual Property (IP) Law (Brussels University, Belgium) and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Leuven (Belgium). Hilde worked as a science consultant and was a patent engineer for several years.

His research focuses mainly on political economics and economic policy, one application of the latter being competition in the pharmaceutical market. He also worked on economic reforms (tax, pensions, institution building). Previously, he acted as an economic expert for a multinational enterprise, for the OECD, and for the World Bank. He sits on the scientific board of the National Bank of Belgium and of the Belgian Price Observatory.

Sofia’s research focuses on empirical health economics and law & economics. More specifically, part of her research assesses how incentives might impact physicians’ behaviour. For instance, how malpractice pressure might impact types of treatments provided by physicians, or whether interactions between physicians and medical device industry might affect treatments. Another line of research assesses how technologies such as the internet might change the relationship between health care providers and patients. Currently, Sofia is also working on projects related to rare diseases.

Marie holds a MSc degree in bioengineering with a specialization in Science, Technology and Quality of Food (UCL, Belgium), a Postgraduate degree in Management (ICHEC Business Management School, Belgium) and a certificate in Clinical Studies (Cefochim, Belgium).

She holds a Master’s degree in Administration in International Organisations and a Bachelor’s Degree in French Philology from the University of Wroclaw (Poland).

Caroline holds a Master’s degree in International Management with a specialization in Economics of Developing Countries from Ichec Brussels Management School. She is currently enrolled in an Online Course on Sustainable Development.