Curriculum Vitae

Employment

2018-              :  Visiting (2018-2021) and Professor of  international finance, LFIN, UCLouvain (Belgium).

2016-              :  Director of the Research Chaire "Financial and extra-Financial Risk Modeling", Institut Louis Bachelier and Insti7 (France).

2001- 2024 : Visiting Professor (2023-2024), Honorary full Professor (2014-2023); Full Professor, Chaire of International Monetary Economics (2007-2014), Associate and Assistant Professor in Economics (2001-2007), Department of Economics, Maastricht University (The Netherlands).  

Education

1999-2001 : Post-doctoral fellow at the Institut für Statistik und Okonometrie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany).

1998 (Dec) : Ph.D in Economics (Topic Macroeconometrics), "Patterns of cyclical variability" UCLouvain, (Belgium). 

1994              : Master degree in Macroeconomic Analysis University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (France).

1988              : Baccalauréat - Lycée Turenne - Freiburg-in-Breisgau (Germany).

Administration

2023- : . Coordinator of the Accounting and Finance domain - Louvain School of Management - UCLouvain.

2023- : . Member of the Belgian Federal Council for Scientific Policy.

2019-:  . Head of Research - Louvain Finance.

                 . Head Master "International finance" - UCLouvain.

2014 :  . Fundraising and creation of a chaire in Financial Stability and Systemic Risks.

2007:   . Associate dean in charge of internationalisation and ICT, Maastricht University.

Others

Institut Louis Bachelier fellow: 2021-

Research Affiliate: Research Center for International Economics in the Department of Economic at City University Hong-Kong (2015-). 

Member of the Global Housing Watch Program of the IMF and Johns Hopkins University (2015-).

Visiting Professorships: IMMAQ-CORE Université Catholique de Louvain (2017-18), Shandong University (2017), University of Orléans (2006-2014), Macquarie University Sydney (2012), City University Hong-Kong (2013).

Visiting Scholar at the I.M.F. Institute for Capacity Development (Washington DC): 

                            Financial Stability and the Credit Rating agencies & Municipal Bond Analysis (2011),

                            Spillover Report (2014), 

                            The New Normal Hypothesis (2016),

                            Globalization and the New Normal Hypothesis (2017),

                            Trade, Globalization and the new normal hypothesis (2018),

                             Financial Development and the Crisis (2018).

                            Regulation, Growth and Financial Stability (2019).

Editor Empirical Economics; Associate Editor Pacific Economic Review.

Extramural fellow of IRES, UCLouvain (Belgium) 2004-2006. 

METEOR Fellow (2001-2017)