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 EDHEC OLYMPIA Alternative Investment Summer Camp

Speakers and Instructors

Jean-René Giraud

Jean René Giraud is C.E.O. of EDHEC-Risk Advisory, the consulting arm of the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research centre where he also focuses on operational and extreme risks for investment managers and hedge funds. Prior to joining EDHEC, Jean-René worked with the management consultancy firm Capco, focusing on operational issues related to investment management companies. As such, Jean-René was in charge of several risk-related initiatives within major European investment banks in London. Jean-René joined Capco after three years of experience with Barclays Capital Technology where he was in charge of the implementation of a transaction database collecting real time trades for risk monitoring and management purposes. Jean-René has a technical background and he spent over 7 years with SIP Software, in charge of the implementation and integration of an institutional portfolio management system.Jean-René graduated from ESSI (French grande école for Computer Sciences) in Nice-Sophia Antipolis.

Philippe Malaise

Philippe Malaise is an associate professor at EDHEC Business School and an asset allocation adviser for AM. Professor Malaise has over 20 years of experience in financial markets and asset management. He has created and headed three financial software companies and has held executive director positions at five other European companies. Within the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Centre, Professor Malaise has participated in applied research projects for Eurex and Euronext, and has designed a state of the art performance measurement tool for Europerformance (Fininfo Group). He has recently published in The Journal of Alternative Investments and in The Journal of Portfolio Management.
Professor Malaise has taught in the school’s MBA and MSc in Finance programmes and delivers executive education seminars on alternative investments for EDHEC AI Education. Philippe Malaise holds graduate degrees in engineering, international finance and financial mathematics.

Lionel Martellini

Lionel Martellini is a professor at EDHEC Business School and the scientific director of the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre. Professor Martellini sits on the four member academic advisory board of Old Mutual Asset Managers' global equity market neutral strategy team. Professor Martellini’s research has been published in leading academic and practitioner journals and featured in major European and global business dailies. He is on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Portfolio Management and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Bond Trading and Management and the Journal of Alternative Investments. Professor Martellini frequently delivers presentations at top asset management and alternative investment industry conferences.
Professor Martellini has taught in the school’s MBA, MiM and MSc programmes. He has also co-authored reference texts on fixed income management and alternative investment. Lionel Martellini holds graduate degrees in business administration, economics, statistics and mathematics, as well as a PhD in Finance from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.