Olivier E. Cadot *91

Olivier Cadot, professor of strategy and vice dean of HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, died March 20, 2019, at age 61.

Of French, Polish, and Swiss ancestry, Cadot was born and raised in France. He completed undergraduate studies at the University of Quebec and in 1983 earned a master’s degree in economics from McGill University, both in Montreal, Canada. In 1991 he earned a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton.

He received a professorship at INSEAD Fontainebleau and held temporary academic appointments at UCLA, New York University, and Koc University in Turkey, among others. Cadot was a much sought-after expert in trade and development issues, serving on many missions to Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, mainly for the World Bank.

Cadot wrote more than 40 papers and was appointed a fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, a prominent network of academic economists.

HEC Lausanne of the University of Lausanne appointed Cadot a full professor in the Department of Management in 1999. Over the years he facilitated scientific approaches across research traditions, especially his dedicated stewardship of many Ph.D. and master’s theses. Since 2015, he served as vice dean of research and was a popular and respected colleague.

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