Dr. Khaled Guesmi is a full professor of Finance and the Director of the Center of Research for Energy and Climate Change (CRECC) at Paris School of Business. He also holds positions as an Adjunct Professor at Telfer School of Management, University of Canada, and an Affiliate Professor at the University of Luxembourg. Dr. Guesmi's research and teaching interests lie in empirical finance, applied time-series econometrics, and commodity markets. He obtained his HDR (Habilitation for Supervising Doctoral Research) in July 2015 and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University Paris Nanterre (2011) and an M.Sc. in Finance from Paris I University of Sorbonne (2005).

Dr. Guesmi has co-authored numerous books and published over 100 articles in leading refereed journals. He currently serves as a Senior Editor at Finance Research Letters, a Senior Editor at the International Journal of Emerging Markets, and an Associate Editor of Research in International Business and Finance.

In addition to his academic pursuits, Dr. Guesmi is the Project Manager of the European Commission's Horizon 2020 Program for Research and Innovation. This program seeks to promote a radical re-design of energy strategies in the southeastern Mediterranean region by developing new models of cooperation between the EU and these countries. The focus is on sustainability and efficiency policies, with cooperation applied to various aspects of the energy sector such as the development of renewables, energy efficiency technologies, and demand-side policies. Dr. Guesmi believes that the EU's support in these areas could bring added value and contribute to the sustainable development of these countries.