Professor of economics - Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL Research University - Department of economics - Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tasssigny, 75 775 Paris Cedex. rene dot aid at dauphine dot fr. 

Resume  Professor of economics at Paris-Dauphine University since 2016 and lecturer at the Ecole Polytechnique (2015-2018), Africa Business School Affiliate since 2019. EDF R&D research-engineer in financial economics of energy markets (1998-2003) and manager (2003-2006). Co-founder and Director (2006-2013) of the Finance for Energy Markets Research Initiative, which received the AEF 2014 award of the best enterprise - university research initiative. Deputy-Director of EDF R&D Research department on generation and financial risk management (2014-2016). Plenary speaker at the SIAM Financial Mathematics  & Engineering conference (2016) and at the World Congress Bachelier Finance Society (2018). Member of the Scientific Office of the Institut Louis Bachelier. Author of the monography Electricity Derivatives, Springer, 2015. Co-editor of the book Commodities, Energy and Environmental Finance, Fields Institute Communications, Springer, 2015. Holder of a patent on demand response management. Director of the Dauphine Master Program Economics & Finance. Co-Director of the Dauphine Master Degree Digital Economics.

YouTube video on Electricity demand response and optimal contract theory

Photo: Heat wave on the Eiffel Tower by Claude Estebe.