Advisory Board

The advisory board is a consultative body consisting of three figures from the world of professional and academic finance. It meets once a year to consider adapting the programme to the recruiting needs of the financial institutions and companies in the financial markets sector and to changes in market activity.

Jacqueline Eli-Namer

- President of Oudart Gestion

Mrs. Jacqueline Eli-Namer has been president of Oudart Gestion since 2004; she has strengthened the group's positioning as a subsidiary of the BSI GENERALI group. Under her direction, Oudart has experienced an unprecedented boom in its commercial development as well as in its private management activities. Mrs. Jacqueline Eli-Namer has extensive experience in private banking after working for 28 years in the asset management industry, as portfolio manager and later as associate and CEO of Crédit Agricole and at Oudart Gestion. She holds a Master 203 from Université Paris-Dauphine. She is also a member of the French Society of Financial Analysts (SFAF).

Michel Péretié

- Head of Corporate and Investment Banking at Société Générale

-Director of Société Générale's Banque de Financement et d'investissement
Michel Péretié began his career with Paribas in 1980. There he created and developed a derivatives department (stocks, rates and currencies). After directing market activities in Japan, he assumed overall responsibility for derivative activities, based in London, in 1996. Named Fixed Income Manager for Paribas en 1998, he took over as head of the Fixed Income department of the new BNP-Paribas Group in 1999. He joined Bear Stearns in September 2000 as manager of Fixed income & derivative activities for Europe and Asia. He was named President of Bear Stearns International in 2004 and became CEO of Bear Stearns for Europe and Asia in 2006. H ejoined the Bear Stearns & Co board of directors in January 2007. In May 2008 Michel Péretié joined the management of Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking and was appointed Director of the Banque de Financement et d'Investissement. Born in 1954, Michel Péretié holds a degree from the Institut d'Administration des Entreprises, Sorbonne University, Paris.

Rama Con't

- Associate professor at Columbia University

Rama Con't joined the Department of Operational Research and Financial Engineering (IEOR) of Colombia University in 2006, after having been a researcher at the Applied Mathematics Centre of the CNRS, professor at the Ecole Polytechnique and visiting professor at Princeton University. His research work focuses in particular on stochastic processes and digital methods in finance. Rama has taught in various universities and schools in Europe and the United States, including the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris VI University, the Sorbonne, Princeton, the University of Osaka, Université Paris-Dauphine and HEC. He has also worked as a consultant for many financial institutions on various subjects ranging from sea transport contract optimisation to digital methods for evaluating the prices of exotic options. Rama is currently the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Quantitative Finance and director of the Financial Engineering Centre of Colombia University.