Michel Girardin

Professor at Geneva Finance Research Institute

Speaker

Michel holds a PhD from the University of Lausanne and a MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics. He has more than 20 years' experience as Chief Economist and Chief Investment Officer in the Swiss private banking sector. He has also run both a long-only equity and a sovereign bond fund as well as a fund of Asian Hedge funds. He is a Board Member of the “International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies” (ICMB) in Geneva. He teaches “Applied Macroeconomics for Portfolio Management” at the Master in Wealth Management, Master in Economics and Master in Statistics levels. Michel also teaches a “Private Banking in Practice” course for the 3rd year Bachelor in Management. He taught Macro-Finance at the International Center FAME (Financial Asset Management and Engineering) in Lausanne and at the CFPI (Centre de Formation pour les Professionnels de l’Investissement).