Olivier BOSSARD

Olivier Bossard is Full Professor of Finance (ETF) at HEC Paris Business School.

For 7 consecutive years from 2016 to 2023, he has served as the Executive Director of the MSc Finance and the International Finance Major of the MSc in Management. This program is ranked #1 worldwide in the QS Global Ranking 2023 of Masters in Finance.

In June 2019, he received the Best Professor Award at HEC Paris, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2021.
Professor Bossard also teaches at Hitotsubashi University (MBA program) in Tokyo, and Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (Master of Finance program) in Beijing.

Olivier graduated as an Engineer from Ecole Centrale Paris (Diplôme d’ingénieur de l’ECP / MSc in Applied Mathematics, 1991).
He subsequently spent 3 years in Japan at Yokohama National University, where he specialized in Cryptography, Deep Learning Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence.

He has been working in the Financial Markets industry for over two decades in Paris, London and Frankfurt. After starting his career at Société Générale Paris as a Derivatives Trader on Fixed Income, Olivier moved to London to lead the complete build-out of the Exotics and Structured Trading desk at Intesa San Paolo Bank, across both Fixed Income and Equity Divisions.

Olivier Bossard then spent over 10 years (from 1998 to 2008) at Lehman Brothers, where he was Managing Director and Member of the Global Equities Management Committee. For over 10 years, he developed from scratch and led the growth of Lehman’s European Equity Structured Products business. He also engineered and implemented the Financial Engineering Hub based in Mumbai, India.

In his latest role as Head of Structured Products and Exotics, Trading and Structuring, he was managing 60 resources across the platform, in Europe and Asia.

In 2010, Olivier joined Macquarie Bank to run Global Derivatives Trading ex-Asia, with teams in London, Frankfurt, Cape Town and New York. Promoted to Senior Managing Director in 2011, he served as Co-Head of the Equity Derivatives Division EMEA, with responsibility over 85 resources across Front Office and Support functions.

Passionate about teaching, Olivier Bossard has been lecturing at HEC continuously since 1999, in parallel to his banking career. Since 2016, he is now the Executive Director of the MSc Finance at HEC Paris and dedicates his time sharing his experience with the younger generation.

Professor Bossard also teaches at Hitotsubashi ICS (MBA program) in Tokyo, and Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (Master of Finance program) in Beijing.

His current study fields include: Finance 2.0, FinTech, Cryptography and Blockchain technology, as well as Big Data and Artificial Intelligence applications in Finance.

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