Financial Markets - 203 - 2ème année de master

Clémence Alasseur holds a PhD degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Paris Orsay (Paris XI). She worked on unsupervised classification with applications to satellite transmission modelling. She is also a graduate from SUPELEC and received an MSc in signal processing from Imperial College (London).

She is currently working at EDF R&D on energy market risk management and electricity price modelling. She also leads FIME lab (Finance for Energy Marckets) which is a commun research center between EDF R&D, University Paris Dauphine, Ecole Polytechnique and CREST.

Kenza Akallal, Vice President, is an investment researcher within the BlackRock Sustainable Investing (BSI) team, based in Paris. The Sustainable Investing team is focused on identifying drivers of long-term return associated with environmental, social and governance issues, integrating them throughout Blackrock's investment processes, and creating solutions for our clients to achieve sustainable investment return. 

Kenza's service with BlackRock dates back to 2014. She was a member of the Portfolio Analytics Group in London where she led the ESG Integration in Aladdin initiative. Her role consisted in leveraging the scale and power of Aladdin to deliver Environmental, Social and Governance capabilities across the investment process to BlackRock and BlackRock Solutions clients. Most recently, she has been a lecturer in Sustainable Investing at Paris-Dauphine University.

Kenza earned an Executive degree in Renewable Energy from Ecole Polytechnique in 2017 and an MSc (203) degree in Quantitative Finance from Paris-Dauphine University in 2014.

Graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, Kaiza holds a master's degree in Computational Finance from Lille 1 University and a DEA of Probability and Finance from Paris 6. He also holds a certificate of Data Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
After working as a Quant in the ALM department at Société Générale Insurance, he joined Natixis CIB in 2015 as a Quantitative Associate in charge of pricing models development for Interest Rate exotic derivatives.
Since 2019, he is the Head of Linear Rates & Credit Derivatives within the R&D department of Natixis CIB.

Hafid is currently at National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), which he joined May 2014. He's heading the model validation and risk methodologies team (All asset classes).
Prior to that, Hafid spent 8 years at BNP Paribas London where his recent position was global head of IRFX valuation model validation team. He was also in charge of transversal IRFX market and model risk projects.
Prior to joinging BNP Paribas, he worked for Credit Agricole SA as quantitative risk analyst working on Interest Rates and Equity products.
Hafid graduated from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees and holds a Master degree (DEA) in "Probability & Finance" from Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris VI. 

Fabian is the Managing Director in charge of Moody’s Investors Service’s global Analytical Tool and Solutions Group (ATS), which is responsible for the quantitative models and analytical tools used in the rating process and across the rating agency.  ATS also serves as an innovation hub for Moody's Investors Service, and helps coordinate and drive technology innovation across the firm. Prior to that role, Fabian held various positions within Moody's, including head of the Rating Model Group and head of the Model Verification Team, which are now part of ATS, and rating analyst in Moody's Structured Finance Group.

Fabian holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Paris- Dauphine and his research focused on Mathematical Finance. He was also awarded a Master’s Degree in Mathematics Applied to Economic Sciences from Dauphine, as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Mathematics and Social Sciences. He also graduated as an engineer from the Ecole des Mines de Paris, where he specialized in Quantitative Finance.

Thierry Béchu is CIO at Aequam Capital, a quantitative asset manager specialized in Risk Premia and asset allocation. Before that he was head of multi-asset for Pension Funds and Endowments at Lombard Odier IM. He developped various expertise in risk based and risk premia approches. Thierry is a former global macro manager and is a technical analysis specialist and wrote a book on this matter.

Sylvain Benoit is Assistant Professor in Finance at Université Paris-Dauphine since 2015. He obtained a PhD in Finance from Université d’Orléans in 2014 and received the SAB Trophy for the best thesis on Sustainable Finance in 2015 as well as the award of the best AFFi conference paper in financial and banking regulation in 2017. Sylvain was a visiting scholar at University of California Santa Cruz (2011) and Cass Business School (2014).

His research mainly focuses on systemic risk, both from a theoretical and an empirical point of view, and have been presented to highly selective conferences such as the European Finance Association, the Northern Finance Association or the European Meeting of the Econometric Society. Two of his research papers have been published in Review of Finance and one of his work is forthcoming in Journal of Financial Intermediation. More generally, his research interests are in financial regulation, monetary policy and financial stability, as well as financial econometrics. Sylvain shares systematically his code and data underlying his research papers to promote transparency and reproducibility.

Today in charge of Quantitative research at Kepler-Cheuvreux, Paul was manager of convertible and volatility arbitrage for various management companies CCR, ADI, OFI, from 1997 to 2012. At the same time, he was a lecturer at Sc -po Paris and teaching manager at HEC He graduated from ENSAE and DEA in modeling from Paris I.

Xavier is currently Head of Operational Research Group (GRO) at Crédit Agricole SA. Acting as an internal consultancy office, his team carries out quantitative studies for Crédit Agricole Group’s entities on the fields of statistics, econometrics, data science and capital market. He was previously Head of assignment at Group General Inspection of Crédit Agricole, with a specialization in quantitative audit. This position notably led him to cover a wide range of risk management issues in both Retail and Corporate & Investment Banking (prudential requirements for credit and operational risks, market risk measures, CVA, Asset and Liability Management, stress tests).
Xavier graduated from ENSAE and Sciences Po Paris. He also holds a master degree in financial mathematics from Dauphine University (Master degree MASEF).

Schlomy BOTBOL joined Comgest in 2016 as a Quantitative Portfolio Manager. Before joining, Schlomy worked as a Portfolio Manager in cross asset investments and alternative strategies, in particular for Société Générale Asset Management Alternative Investments in 2005 and UBP Alternative Investments in 2009. He is a derivatives expert who has considerable experience in portfolio management, execution and quantitative research of innovative investment solutions. Schlomy graduated from the French Grande Ecole Telecom SudParis and holds a Master’s degree from Université Paris – Dauphine (Master 203).

With a French education, Oriental culture and Anglo-Saxon spirit, Nathalie Yaël Cohen has always been interested in multicultural diversity, geopolitics and international relations. For 20 years she worked in the Financial Markets, specializing in foreign exchange risk management.

She has since always two passions: Theatre for letting go and expressing emotions and Medicine because of her continuous amazement at the magic and power of the human body.

After a sabbatical year travelling, discovering other cultures, doing volunteer work for sick children, for autistics and the realization that " time is life! “ she chose to reconvert herself professionally.

Graduated of the Co-Active Training Institute, ICF Member and certified NLP; she is now a Leadership Coach. She works internationally with large groups and start-ups. She is committed to connecting people to their essence, in order to develop their leadership and creativity.

Laurent Dahan works at Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, as head of market Risk Management on interest rate derivatives (linear G10 & emerging, Govies, and inflation linked). Prior to this position, he held various management positions in Equity Derivatives Market Risk (Exotics, structured products, and fund derivatives) for more than 12 years

Before working in Market Risk Laurent spent 2 years in a family office, in charge of fund allocation on medium and long term. He put in place equity and forex derivative strategies funded by bonds on medium term and a dynamic and systematic strategy for the long term investment.
Laurent graduated from Miage Dauphine and then specialized in statistical models applied to finance. He is a member of The Professional Risk Managers' International Association and GARP (FRM certified).

Dr. Alain Durré is Chief Economist at Goldman Sachs, Inc. et Cie.Until September 2014, he was Principal Economist in the Monetary Policy Strategy Division of the Directorate General Economics of the European Central Bank. He is also a member of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France (LEM-CNRS). He was educated at Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis (Belgium), Universität Mannheim (Germany) and at the Université catholique de Louvain from which he holds a PhD in monetary economics.

Jean-Louis is an M&A professional with an experience spanning over 20 years in London and Paris.
He is a partner at EY, responsible for the FIG M&A practice in France
He spent the greater part of his career in London (HSBC, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Fox-Pitt, Kelton and Keefe, Bruyette & Woods). He also spent 3 years at Oddo Corporate Finance before joining EY in 2015.
Jean-Louis is a FIG specialist (bank, insurance, brokerage, asset management and fintechs). As such, he enjoys a regular dialogue with the various financial institutions in France and Europe
He originated and executed more than 50 transactions (both domestic and cross-border) for banks (Natixis, BNP Paribas, Crédit Mutuel, Dexia, HSBC, etc.), insurances (AXA, MetLife, Cardif, Generali, MACIF, MNH, etc.), insurance brokers (Ciprès, Assurea, etc.), asset managers (OFI, Fourpoints, Framlington, Insinger de Beaufort, etc.), private equity players and public institutions (Apax, IFC, Proparco). He recently advised Apax for the acquisition of the insurance broker Ciprès, BNP Paribas for the acquisition of Landkreditt Finans in Norway and most currently Natixis for the sale of Sélection 1818. Jean-Louis is graduated from ESSEC and completed an Executive Program at INSEAD

Marius-Cristian Frunza is a Director with Schwarzthal Kapital, a financial advisory and research company. He is specialised in climate change and environmental finance.
Previously, he worked as a broker in the energy markets for a commodity broker. He has also a consulting experience hedging.
He graduated from Ecole Polythechnique and holds a PhD in mathematical finance and a HDR in economics from the reputed Paris Sorbonne University. He is the author of over 20 articles in various areas including carbon markets and risk management. He also published 4 books including Fraud on the carbon market, considered a reference work on the subject.

After his graduation from ENS Paris and Paris Diderot University, Paul Gassiat wrote a PhD on stochastic control and mathematical finance at Paris Diderot University. He is currently Maître de Conférences (Associate Professor) at University Paris-Dauphine and member of the CEREMADE laboratory. 

His research focuses on stochastic analysis, stochastic control and numerical probability with a particular interest towards financial applications.

Arnaud Gihan, Director, BlackRock. Arnaud is Head of iShares Asset Management in France, his responsibilities include developing the ETF franchise and delivering market insights to Asset Managers. He is also in charge of delivering execution services and product expertise for iShares in France, guiding clients to execute orders effectively, maximising liquidity, working closely with the iShares Capital Market teams.
Mr. Gihan service at the firm dates back to 2010 when he was fully embedded in the capital market group in charge of improving clients’ trading experience of iShares. Prior to joining BlackRock, Mr Gihan was trading Equity Derivatives for JP Morgan, where he heading the ETF Market Making activity.
Mr Gihan holds an MSc (203) in Quantitative Finance from Paris Dauphine University.

Thibault Godbillon is a policy expert in the supervisory review, recovery and resolution unit at the European Banking Authority (EBA). He focuses on matters relating to resolution planning - MREL and resolvability assessment in particular.
Prior to joining the EBA, Thibault was a manager within the resolution directorate of the Bank of England where he contributed to the execution of the Bank’s MREL policy (MREL setting, MREL reporting and monitoring), led resolution planning for a Global Systemic Important Institution, contributed to active contingency planning and to developing the resolvability assessment framework.
Before joining the regulatory side, Thibault was Assistant Vice President at DBRS in London after having gained experience in financial auditing, M&A and economic research in Paris.

Benoit is the CEO of SMiLE Investment Solutions, an advisory company specialized in portfolio management and asset allocation.

Before founding SMiLE, Benoit was in charge of the R&D department at Riskelia (for 5 years) and co-portfolio manager of Riskelia’s fund. He completed his PhD in Mathematical Finance in London under the supervision of Prof Helyette Geman on a variety of commodity-related quantitative problems (2010). Benoit also graduated in “Computer Science and Software Engineering” from the University of Technology of Compiègne (MSc degree – 2006) and holds a research Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics (image processing, classification and machine learning) from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (2006). 

Master 203 alumni from year 2000, Karen Herrgott holds a Master in Business Administration from University of South Florida.

Financial consultant at Murex for 17 years, Karen Herrgott specialised on Market Risk Management area and now works as free-lancer on Basel 3 software implementation.

Passionated with NonViolent Communication since 2010, Karen Herrgott shares her know-how with companies willing to enhance collaboration within their teams.

Thierry is the Head of Invetsment Solutions since July 2015. He is an expert on insurance problematics, product structuring and financial modelling for complex products and strategies.

Before he had worked as a quantitative analyst at Aviva France for 3 years after having been a Senior Manager for a year . From 2008 to 2011 Thierry has been a quantitative analyst for the insurer AllState. He has started his career as an actuary associate at AEGON.
Thierry holds Master in Financial Engineering of Cornell university. He is also a CFA charterholder, FSA ”Fellow of Society of Actuaries”, and FRM ”Financial Risk Manager”.

Guillaume Leenhardt is Global Head of Business Development and Group Board member at Mercuria Energy Group, Geneva, one of the top five global energy traders. 

Guillaume joined Mercuria in 2011 after a 20 year banking career where he held various senior management positions and was a key contributor to the leadership of BNP Paribas in the financing of the Energy and Commodities sector. His last position at BNP Paribas was head of their Energy & Commodity Finance department in Paris, active across the commodity spectrum: structured and trade finance, upstream oil and gas, and mining finance. 

Guillaume is a graduate of the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris and completed with honors in 1989 the Masters 203 in Commodities and Financial markets at the University of Paris Dauphine.

Gaëlle Le Fol is Professor of Finance at Paris – Dauphine and Resarch Fellow at the CREST (Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique). She is an economics and econometrics graduate from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne and holds a Ph.D in Economics from Paris 1 University. Before joining the Université Paris-Dauphine, Gaëlle Le Fol was an Assistant Professor (Maîtres de Conférence) at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne (1999-2002) and a Professor of Economics at the University of Angers (2002-2006) and the University of Evry (2006-2010).

Her research interests are in financial market microstructure and financial econometrics. Her recent research has included investors behaviors and their impact on the trading characteristics, market liquidity, contagion and systemic risk as well as high frequency algorithmic trading. She teaches financial econometrics and electronic markets.  

François Letondu is head of macrofinancial and macrosector studies within the economic and sector research department of Société Générale S.A. In this role, he helps identify risks and key developments in various sectors of the real economy, as well as in the financial industry.
He was previously deputy head of macroeconomic research within the same department, where he oversaw macroeconomic forecasting while also working on the Eurozone economy.

Before joining Société Générale in 2016, François was economist and strategist at HSBC in Paris, working within the Global Banking and Markets division. In this role he worked primarily on the European economy as well as on fixed income and currency markets. François started his career as an economist working on the Eurozone for the Risk division of Société Générale.

François graduated from the French Grande Ecole « Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique » (ENSAE-ParisTech) in 2008.

Johan Mabille is a scientific software developer specializing in high-performance computing in C++. He holds master's degree in computer science from Centrale-Supelec.

As an open source developer, Johan coauthored xtensor and xeus , and is the main author of xsimd.

Prior to joining QuantStack, Johan was a quant developer at HSBC.

Alberto Manconi is Assistant Professor of Finance at Bocconi University. Alberto joined Bocconi University in September 2016, after working for six years in the Finance Department at Tilburg University (Netherlands). 

Alberto's research interests revolve around financial intermediation and corporate finance.

Alberto's research has been presented at all major international conferences in the field of financial economics (AFA, WFA, EFA, FIRS), and it has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Review of Finance. 

Guillaume Monarcha is partner at orion financial partners, since 2009. As head of research, his role consists in developping quantitative investment solutions (cross asset / global macro strategies) and active risk management tools (systematic overlays).

He started his carreer at Natixis CIB as Quantitative Economist, before leading a team of Quant Strategists in charge of hedge fund research and market analysis.

Guillaume holds a Ph.D in Economics. His research activity is focused on hedge funds, asset allocation, risk premia, and nowcasting.

His research activity is focused on hedge funds, asset allocation, risk premia, and nowcasting.

Philippe Nardone has more than 10 years of experience in Compliance functions. He currently works in Compliance Department at Credit Agricole S.A. where he is in charge of the prevention and the management of conflicts of interest and Market Abuse.
Philippe is regularly involved in organizing international Compliance trainings for the Credit Agricole Group’s employees.
Prior to that, he worked as Sales-Trader assistant in the Trading Room of Credit Agricole Cheuvreux during 8 years. At the beginning of his career, he also worked as consultant for various missions in the main french banks (BNP Paribas, Société Générale…).
Philippe followed graduate studies in finance, accounting and audit before starting his career in finance. 

Brice Perin is responsible for Convertible Bonds and Volatility Management at LBPAM.

Brice has over 20 years of experience in volatility and convertible management. He began his career at DWS as a convertible arbitrage manager, then was responsible for the management of several directional or arbitrage funds - based on volatility or convertible strategies -, at DWS then at La Française. AM, Acropole Am, at Generali Investment and now at LBPAM.

Brice graduated from ENSAE.

Jiang Pu est enseignant-chercheur à l'ESILV dans le département de finance. Il travaille en étroite collaboration avec des chercheurs universitaires et des acteurs du secteur financier. Diplômé de l'Ecole Polytechnique et de l'ENSAE, il a obtenu un doctorat en mathématiques appliquées de l'Université Paris-Diderot sur l'optimisation stochastique appliquée à la finance mathématique.

Ses intérêts de recherche sont : l'optimisation stochastique, l'apprentissage statistique, la microstructure de marché.

After starting his career at EDF in a nuclear power plant, Marc Ringeisen focused on the professions of optimizing the supply-demand balance for electricity and EDF's portfolio of physical assets in interaction with the markets. He held various operational and management positions within the Upstream Downstream and Trading Optimization Department. He was also head of an EDF R&D department which develops the calculation codes used by EDF for the operational management of its assets and market risks. He is now Deputy Director of the entity in charge of optimizing EDF's asset portfolio in France on market horizons. He graduated from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon.

Julien Royer is a PhD candidate in Applied Mathematics at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) and ENSAE. He holds a master's degree in Economics and Financial Engineering from Paris Dauphine University and a master's degree in Quantitative Finance and Risk Management from ENSAE. Prior to his doctoral research, Julien was a systematic strategies structurer at Société Générale CIB in New York and he is currently a quantitative researcher at BFT Investment Managers, a subsidiary of Amundi.

Julien Royer's research focuses on Financial Econometrics and his academic work deals with the memory property of financial time series and its implication for volatility modeling, risk measures inference and portfolio construction.

Michael Sebbah has been a project manager in automotive industry then a Quant Developer in investment banking for 19 years. He has been working in Paris and London.
Michael is an engineer gratuated from Centrale Lille, France. He obtained a master's degree in Financial Mathematics from Sorbonne University as well.
Currently, he works as a sofware engineer at a major bank implementing cloud and big data services. His favorite coding languages are C++ and Python. 

Olivier Toutain hold a diploma in engineering, with a major in applied mathematics, and graduated from the University Paris-Dauphine with a post master’s qualification. He is currently Executive Director at Scope Ratings, in charge of rating transactions or defining credit risk assessment methodologies in Structured Finance. Previously, he held different roles at Banque de France and Moody's; at Banque de France as Head of the Risk Modelling Unit within the Risk Management Directorate at Banque de France, and as Head of the ABS Purchase Program for France, Ireland and Portugal; at Moody's responsible for the quantitative methodologies in the European Structured Finance Group. He spent approximately the last 20 years working on Securitisation either analysing their credit risk or purchasing those transactions. He is also adjunct professor at Université Paris - Dauphine since 2013.

Séverine Vadon-David, CFA, has 20 years’ experience in the financial sector in product structuring and client relationship management. She works as a freelance coach and trainer on reputation risk for the banking sector, operational risks, change management, and intercultural competency. She structured or sold products on a variety of markets (fx, money markets, bonds, equity, hedge funds) to a wide variety of clients (central banks, institutional, asset managers, retail networks, treasurers, insurance companies), with a dual experience in investment banking and asset management.

She is the author of proprietary training programmes in reputation risk for the financial and non-financial sectors, and intercultural competencies to manage, assess or negotiate with different cultures. She holds an MBA in Management from Imperial College -London, is a CFA Charterholder®, and is a certified coach with ICF (International Coach Federation).

Thibaud Vienne is currently a lead Data Scientist at Natixis CIB, where he is responsible for a data science and machine learning team.
Thibaud also provides big data analytics lectures at ESIEE Paris, his former engineering school, where he has received a master's degree with honors.

Redouane is currently Executive Director at Cristalys, which he founded on 2018. Cristalys develop investment tools using Quantitative models and Machine Learning.
Prior to that, Redouane spent 12 years at Amundi Asset Management where his recent position was head of Fixed Income Structured Fund Managers.
Prior to joinging Amundi, he worked for MUREX as developer on Interest Rates products.
Redouane graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble and holds a Master degree in " Financial Modelling and Engineering " from Evry University, and an Applied Master in Data Science and Artificial intelligence from Data ScienceTech Institute, and a Certificate in Financial Risk Management given by GARP Association.