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Associate Professor, Business, Economics and Public Policy
Donald F. Hunter Professor in International Business
Christian studies how structural change — geopolitical, technological — reshapes business models and operations at the firm level.
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). After spending a decade as a professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management he joined Ivey in 2021.
Christian 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 Executive and Accelerated 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. He co-founded three technology scale-ups in the domains of DaaS, geo-political media products / digital consumables, and AI readiness: LobbyIQ, Queen Street Analytics and intrepid Data Solutions.