This is Matthias Finger’s personal home page.

I was a Professor of Management of Network Industries (infrastructures) at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, between 2002 and 2020 and am since then a Professor Emeritus.

As of 2010 I was a part-time Professor at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and founding Director of the Florence School of Regulation Transport Area (FSR-T). I retired from EUI and FSR-T in December 2025.

As of 2018 I was an International Professor at Istanbul Technical University (ITÜ), Türkiye, at the Faculty of Management in the Economics Department. I retired from ITÜ in December 2025.

My expertise lies in the area of network industries (energy, transport, communications and water), in particular their de-regulation, their re-regulation and their governance more generally. As of 2014 I also developed a new focus on urban infrastructures as complex and dynamic socio-technical systems. At the end of my career, I came to conceptualize digital platforms and data spaces as the “new infrastructures”.