Christian Dippel

Christian Dippel is an Associate Professor of Strategy, Policy and International Business. After a brief stint in investment banking, Christian completed his Ph.D. at Toronto’s Rotman School of Management where his doctoral dissertation 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.

Christian teaches courses at the intersection of business strategy, global macro and technological disruption. Christian has received the Teaching Excellence Award in the Executive MBA program, and runs the AI Strategy for Competitive Advantage program in Ivey’s Executive Education offerings. 

With a deep interest in data and automation technology, Christian has co-founded and now serves on the board of several technology scale-ups in DaaS, AI-analytics, and media products / digital consumables.