Prof. em. Dr. Silvio Borner

Silvio Borner (1941) professor emeritus for Economics and Politics at the University of Basel and Program Director of the “Summer School for Law, Economics and Public Policy”, which he founded. He is also a senior advisor at Hoffmann & Partner, a founding member of the Carnot-Cournot Network for economic studies for economic studies, member of the program commission of Avenir Suisse and columnist for the “Weltwoche” magazine. After studying at the University of St. Gallen and Yale (USA), he qualified as a lecturer at the University of St. Gallen in 1973 before becoming a tenured professor in Basel in 1978. There, he taught economics for over 30 years, with spells as a visiting professor at Stanford University, Vancouver, Buenos Aires and Sydney. He was instrumental in establishing the Centre for Business and Economics (WWZ) at the University of Basel and in setting up the university’s own Faculty of Business and Economics. He has been a Professor emeritus since August 2009 and now serves as the Director of the WWZ Summer School for Law, Economics and Public Policy, which he founded. As the author of some twenty published books and over 150 academic articles and essays, Professor Borner has always been in close contact with the business world and public life.