Do you really know Bertrand Groslambert, Professor of Finance at SKEMA Business School since 1999? Let’s check it out!
The biggest challenge in finance today: To serve the economy and support its transition towards the decarbonisation planned in the COP21 Paris Agreement.
The historical figure or researcher you would like to have dinner with: There are many great minds that I would have liked to cross paths with, especially historical figures who demonstrated their ability to see beyond the possibilities of their time, like Spinoza, De Gaulle, Franklin Roosevelt, Camus, Hugo, Pasteur, Marie Curie, or lesser known people who showed exemplary courage like Madeleine Riffaud.
Your favourite book, movie, or TV show: Books: Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, La Conversation de Bolzano by Sandor Marai; Movie: Joker with Joaquin Phoenix.
The biggest change you have seen in finance since you started teaching: The recurring pattern of financial crises at an increasing frequency, which had been absent from 1945 until 1987.
Your favourite activity on holiday: To stop planning and live day by day.
Your method for balancing theory and real-world finance in your teaching: Reading a lot and maintaining a strong connection with professionals in the field.
The most rewarding part of your academic career: The contact with students and their feedback.
One word to describe SKEMA: Energy.
The place you have visited that left a lasting impression on you: Attending both presidential inaugurations of Barack Obama in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016 on the National Mall in Washington: four years apart, two different crowds, two opposite political leaders.
The best advice you would give to someone starting their academic career: Be bold.