Our lecturers

Working professionals, former professionals, consultants and free lance, our speakers are all external to the company. This is the best way to guarantee you our full independence when choosing the most competent lecturer to meet your needs.

Nasser Abdelhafid
After 15 years of experience in the international finance, Nasser is currently a Risk Manager at BNP Paribas. Also specialized in Islamic finance (Islamic Structured Finance, Islamic Securities Services and Islamic Risk Management), Nasser will share his expertise to ensure a complete understanding of the influence of the Sharia in the Islamic financial industry.

Nasser teaches : Introduction to islamic finance

Zouheir Ben Tamarout
Zouheir has over 18 years of experience within the activities of arbitrage for own account, trading of exotics, structuring for third parties and quantitative research in alternative investments. Zouheir is currently an independent consultant in quantitative finance, alternative strategies and algorithmic trading.

Zouheir teaches : Structured creditCredit Risk : a quant’s view

Frédéric Bompaire
Fréderic is the manager of a management company specialised in corporate and institutional clients. He first gained diverse experience in financial markets in Paris and London before turning to management on behalf of third parties. Having lived the launch of SICAVAS money market funds in 1981, he has continuously paid close attention to this type of management by working with different professional associations.

Frédéric teaches : Money Market funds: the French way

Alain Bouijoux
Head of sales in London and Paris on a desk for foreign exchange and interest rate derivatives, Alain has evolved for over 10 years in the markets. He faced the needs of his clients as well as the requirements of traders and management obligations of back and middle offices. Today he puts that experience at your disposal to answer all your questions about markets and their actors.

Alain teaches : The basics of financial marketsThe basics of derivatives markets

Sylvaine Chubert
Sylvaine has made much of her professional career in major banking groups (ING, Rabobank, BNP Paribas) where she performed commercial and risk management operations of Corporate, Trade Finance and Real Estate Project Finance. Sincemore than 10 years, she is also a visiting professor at the University of Paris Dauphine where she teaches in the Structured Finance Banking to the Finance Insurance Masters. Today she intervenes as a trainer and consultant to banks and large exporters.

Sylvaine teaches : Introduction to microfinanceStructured finance fundamentalsReal estate structured financeProject finance fundamentals

Neal Cooper
Neal intervenes in the UK and France on management, communication and sales techniques. He shares with you his experience gained with financial clients as well as in the financial services or industry.

Neal teaches : Sales techniques

Benoît Cougnaud
Benoît is manager of the company Azurri, performing advisory missions on issues of financial risk measurement and management. He intervenes for banks and companies of significant size. His professional career has led him to perform inspector duties at Exane, the risk manager and expert in risk modeling and credit market within the Banking Committee.

Benoît teaches : Basel III impacts

Olivier de Bodman
Olivier has over 30 years of banking experience. He has held various management, business development and risk management functions, both in France and abroad. Before founding his own consulting firm, he was Head of Country Risk in the Risk Management department of Natixis.

Olivier teaches : Sovereign risk management

Olivier de Larouzière
Olivier is in charge of Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange Management at Natixis AM. Olivier will share with you his experience of over 13 years within money and bond products, as a manager and trader for own account.

Olivier teaches : Fixed income portfolio management

Thierry Gainon
Thierry has worked his entire career in the financial markets where he was in charge of structuring on the fixed income and equities markets. Today, in charge of risk for a pension fund, he masters the technical aspects of structured products and has extensive knowledge of the current offer.

Thierry teaches : Structured products: mechanisms and main uses

Skander Handous
Skander began his career in 1996 at BNP. He left the BNP Paribas Group in 2007 to found Advanced Derivative Solutions, a software publishing company for risk management of derivatives.

Skander teaches : Foreign exchange marketPricingCMS and CMS spread option

Christopher Heilpern
Energy products specialist, Christopher has gained extensive experience in commodities markets by exercising for almost twenty years, both on physics and derivatives in Europe and Asia.

Christopher teaches : Commodities investing: cash and derivatives markets

Pierre Hervé
Peter is the President of Advanced Fund Analysis since 2002 and Executive Vice President in charge of Asset Management of Wealth-Heritage since 2010. Previously he was CEO of AXA Multimanager, structure he created in 1999. He teaches in the Masters Asset Management at the University Paris-Dauphine and the University of Poitiers. He has also published two books with Economica on "asset allocation" and "multi-management".

Pierre teaches : Global strategic asset allocationGlobal tactical asset allocationFund selection

Oscar Relier
Oscar has worked in corporate finance and trading room for SBC Warburg, UBS and Deutsche Bank. He masters the mechanism, use and pricing of derivatives. Also trained in behavioral techniques, he designs and conducts training on public presentation and on the issues of communication and management.

Oscar teaches : Introduction to credit derivativesIntermediate financial derivativesInterest rates options : pricing and risk managementSales techniquesPublic Speaking and Presentation Skills

Clément Saudo
Clement is an attorney with the law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel. He intervenes in the negotiation of agreements for financial futures including on FBF and ISDA, on operations of credit derivatives, on litigation related to derivatives and more generally on post-market issues and on the rules governing the organisation of banking or financial actors.

Clément teaches : Legal aspects of carbon trading

Emmanuel Schatz
Emmanuel has worked for over 20 years on the financial market. He has worked as a trader on interest and exchange rates. Since 10 years he is manager of rates at Natixis AM. Emmanuel shares his mastery of a wide range of products and markets in which he has intervened both as a trader and a manager.

Emmanuel teaches : Money Markets: daily practiceAsset-backed securities