Jean-Louis Bertrand

Jean-Louis Bertrand is Professor of Finance and Head of M2 Financial Markets. He teaches primarily in the Master program, namely asset management, portfolio management, and corporate risk management. His research focuses on risk management in general, and climate risk management and the use of parametric derivatives in particular.

He is the author of books and book chapters on the subject published by Eds Revue Banque or Oxford University Press. He publishes his research in leading academic journals such as The European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Business Research, Applied Economics, Journal of Asset Management, Harvard Business Review, and appears regularly in the media to disseminate the results of his work on the links between economics and climate.

He is a 2012 MPIA laureate, a programme for the dissemination of academic research into the real economy, which enabled him to co-found Meteo Protect, a technology start-up, where he directed research and development activities for nearly 6 years. He also participated in the creation of MetNext between 2007 and 2011.

Before joining ESSCA, Jean-Louis Bertrand spent most of his career outside France. He managed FX, interest rate and commodity risks as treasurer in two international groups and worked in the banking sector, mainly in trading rooms, where he was a trader and supervised sales teams in the foreign exchange and interest rate markets.

He is a member of the Weather Risk Management Association, the Association Française des Trésoriers d’Entreprise and the Association des Trésoriers d’Entreprise au Luxembourg.

He holds a PhD, an engineering degree and an MBA.