Laurent ESTACHY

Laurent Estachy (PhD in Economics, HEC Executive MBA) is currently teaching at KEDGE Business School - Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux and Shanghai campuses - Geo-economics and International Finance for the Global Executive MBA, International MSc or Executive Education programs. His research papers focus on geo-economics, in other words the far-reaching interactions between geopolitics, macroeconomics and global capital markets and on financial assets pricing and the emergence of market “conventions” in the stock, bond or foreign exchange markets. Geo-economy implies to refer on the writings of economic historians and theorists of the global political economy, i.e. to rely on the hypothesis that struggles among nations to keep or reach financial and economic hegemonic position is required to understand the actual functioning and recent evolution of the world economy... Dr Estachy published also numerous notes-case studies, applied research dealing with the shortcomings of the “standard” country risk analysis or with corporate strategic risk management related to financial markets.   Prior to working in an academic environment, Dr Estachy started his career in commercial banking at Credit Lyonnais International Headquarters and at BNP Dublin and Paris Place Vendome branch. He later worked in the Treasury & Foreign Exchange dealing room of BNP in Paris, joining first the FX spot and option trading desks and then being in charge of a portfolio of large multinational corporations (ELF-TOTAL, BP, EDF, PSA etc.). Later on, he joined a triple A institution, Rabobank International as vice-president of the Paris Branch and developed for seven years numerous high-level investment bank relationships, advising many corporate Group Treasurers, CFO or Boards on financial markets risks.