Biographies des conférenciers
Dr. Chafik Bouhaddioui is an Associate Professor of Statistics in the College of Business and Economics at UAE University. He got his Ph.D in 2002 from University of Montreal in Canada. He worked as lecturer at Concordia University for 4 years. He has a rich experience in applied statistics in finance in private and public sectors. He worked as assistant researcher in Finance Ministry in Canada. He worked as Senior Analyst in National Bank of Canada and developed statistical methods used in stock market forecasting. He joined in 2004 a team of researchers in finance group at CIRANO in Canada to develop statistical tools and modules in finance and risk analysis. He published several papers in well-known journals in the area of multivariate time series analysis and their applications in economics and finance.
Dr. Ahmed El Ghini is currently an Assistant Professor of Econometrics at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. He has been a Researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research of France, where he was involved in many national and international research projects. Before joining the IRCICA institute of CNRS, Ahmed was affiliated as Assistant for Teaching and Research with the EQUIPPE Laboratory “Economie QUantitative, Intégration, Politiques Publiques et Econométrie” of the Université Lille Nord de France. He holds a PhD and an MA in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Charles de Gaulle University - Lille3, and “Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies” in pure mathematics from Lille 1 University, France. Professor El Ghini’s teaching experiences include probability, statistics, econometrics and mathematics at many universities and engineering schools in France and Morocco. His research interests focus on time-series modeling, econometrics, statistics and their applications in economics and finance. Dr. El Ghini’s research work is published in many peer-reviewed journals and presented at several international conferences.
Dr. Youssef Saidi is researcher at Bank Al-Maghrib (the Central Bank of Morocco). He has conducted several seminars in forecasting techniques in Morocco and Africa. He taught mathematics and econometrics at University of Rabat (Morocco). He also taught mathematics, statistics and Computer Science at Universities of Lille 2, Lille 3 and Valenciennes (France).
His research focuses on time series analysis, regime change models, forecasting techniques, monetary and exchange rate policy, financial markets, commodities, emerging economies, financial contagion.
Dr. Abderrahim Taamouti (PhD in Economics, University of Montreal) is an Associate Professor at Durham University Business School. Before joining Durham University Business School in 2014, Abderrahim held the position of Associate Professor of Economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Spain. His fields of specialization are Econometrics and Finance. He mainly works on Granger causality analysis, hypothesis testing, nonparametric estimation and testing, asset pricing, portfolio selection, and risk management. He published in many international journals as Journal of Econometrics, Review of Finance, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Journal of Empirical Finance, and Journal of Financial Econometrics.