keynote speaker

Pr. Abderrahim Taamouti

Liverpool University Management School 

Title: Machine learning-based portfolio selection under non-Gaussian return distributions and systemic risk

Abderrahim Taamouti has a PhD in Economics from University of Montreal in Canada. Before joining Liverpool University Management School, Abderrahim held the position of Associate Professor of Economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Spain and Professor of Economics and Finance at Durham University Business School in the UK. His fields of specialization are Econometrics (Theory and Applied Econometrics) and Finance. He mainly works on Granger causality analysis, High-dimensional data analysis, Non-parametric estimation and tests, Machine Learning, Asset pricing, Systemic risk, Characteristic function methods in financial time series, Copula estimation, Exact sign-based inference, Risk management and portfolio optimization, Sovereign credit ratings, Robust-estimation techniques to measurement errors, Robust-estimation and inference techniques for stock return predictability. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A and an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Risk and Financial Management. He is also an elected member of the Econometric Society Regional Standing Committee. He was the Program Chair of one of the regional conference meeting of the Econometric Society. He also acted as the director of Quantitative Research in Financial Economics (QRFE) at Durham University from 2014 to 2021.

Pr. Adil LEKRAFI

Titre : Sujet: Methodes de Monte Carlo en Finance

 Sorbonne Paris Nord University, Complex R&D projects and on problems of optimizing risk indicator calculations

Diplômé d’un DEA de Mathématiques, d’une licence en Informatique et d’un DEA de Probabilités et Finance (Ecole Polytechnique / Paris VI), Adil Lekrafi a débuté sa carrière en tant que Quant developer au Crédit Agricole Indosuez (CAI) au sein de l’équipe de R&D sur les dérivés de taux. Depuis une vingtaine d’années, il intervient en tant que consultant dans les salles de marché des plus grandes banques d’investissement de Paris. Il a ainsi acquis une solide expertise sur la valorisation et la gestion des risques des produits dérivés de taux, de change et de crédit. Actuellement il intervient essentiellement sur des projets complexes de R&D ou sur des problématiques d’optimisations des calculs d’indicateurs de risques.
En parallèle, depuis une dizaine d’années Adil Lekrafi enseigne les Mathématiques, les Statistiques, la Finance de marché et l'Informatique dans plusieurs établissements d'enseignement Supérieur dont l’Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, l'Université Internationale de Rabat et l’Ecole Centrale de Casablanca.

Pr. Boujemaa Achchab

Hassan First University of Settat

Title : Quelques éléments de la théorie de la décision pour l'intelligence artificielle

Pr. Jerome Busca

Professor of Finance, ESILV - Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci

Title of the intervention: "Use of partial differential equations in Finance"

Jérôme Busca obtained his Doctorate in Applied Mathematics in 1998 (Paris VI). He has also held an HDR since 2004.
He started out as a consultant before becoming a researcher at the CNRS. Specializing in quantitative finance and more specifically electronic trading, he then worked for 16 years in the financial industry in the United States for various investment funds. Since 2021, he has been a teacher-researcher at ESILV. His research focuses on quantitative finance, more specifically the role of electronic market-making in price formation.

Lila Benhamou

Sujet :Crédit immobilier et automatisation intelligente

Lila is a serial entrepreneur and a seasoned business executive with 20 years of experience. Her background includes leading sustainable and profitable growth at key industry leaders such as Orange Telecom, BT, etc, and setting up, streamlining and accelerating systems and processes. After graduating from the Kellogg School of Management, Chicago, with an Executive MBA in 2015, Lila decided to leverage her newly acquired skills and previous Corporate World experience and founded Humans4Help, where she is providing specialist Data, Digital Transformation and Blockchain services to some of the leading companies in a range of sectors.

Pr. Hamid BELMEKKI

HEAD OF ANALYTICS CHEZ AIYO, France

Title : ‘’Innovation in Finance’’

Graduate of Polytechnique in 1996 and ENSTA (National School of Advanced Techniques) in 1999, and Student in Executive MBA at ESADE Barcelona (EMBA Monthly Promotion 2024).
He is currently the partner in charge of the Analytics and Technology sector within AIYO GROUP in France. He also teaches courses in new technologies and finances in several institutions including the International University of Rabat and ENSIAS, and leads international research teams. In 2013, he founded a nearshore R&D structure on behalf of SG in Morocco, SGATS (Societe Generale Africa Technologies and Services), which recruited dozens of young engineers. The subsidiary, which has obtained CFC (Casablanca Finance City) status, is responsible for developing software and libraries for pricing financial products, as well as risk management tools. And also BMCE Capital Solutions, a subsidiary of the BMCE group.

Pr. Mohammed El Haj Tirari

National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics, Morocco

Title : "L'apprentissage statistique en présence des données déséquilibrées"

Mohammed El Haj Tirari, has a Ph.D. degree in Statistics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. From 1995 to 2004, he was Assistant Professor and researcher at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). From 2004 to 2010, he was Lecturer/Researcher at the Ecole Nationale de Statistique et d’Analyse d’information (Rennes, France). He also taught at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris, France). Since 2010, he is Full Professor at the Institut National de Statistique et d’Economie Appliquée (Rabat, Morocco).  He participated as trainer in EU training programs: Medstat II, Medstat III and AMICO. He has several years of experience in the field of applied statistics, survey sampling, more specifically, sampling methods, estimation methods, estimation of the precision in complex survey designs, treatment of non-response and treatment of the measurement errors, methods of datamining and statistical modeling.

Pr. Hicham El Bayed

Senior Consultant / Professor of Management & Economics / Business Developer

Title   : " Intelligence artificielle et dynamique des territoires : Opportunités et menaces pour les Pays en Développement - Cas du Maroc "

Professor Hicham El Bayed is a Doctor in International Economics from the University of Grenoble Alpes (France) and the University Mohamed V (Rabat - Morocco). He also holds a DESS in Business Administration from the University of Grenoble Alpes (France). Formerly ATER (Teaching and Research Attaché) at Blaise Pascal University (Clermont-Ferrand, France) until 2002, Professor Hicham EL BAYED joined Cadi Ayyad University (Marrakech) in 2004 before moving joined the University Hassan 1er (Settat - Morocco) in 2007. Author of about thirty articles, among others in indexed journals and with reading committees, with a book in preparation for the beginning of 2023 on Branding and the universe brands. In addition, as a Senior Trainer in Strategy and Organization, Professor Hicham EL BAYED has to his credit a multitude of missions with companies and chambers of commerce in Morocco and Africa as an Expert-consultant to support them. in organizational transformation strategies.

Pr. Zakaria Firano
Professeur à la Fsjes Agdal Rabat

Title  : Capital structure, financial disruption and banking system

Zakaria Firano is a research professor at the Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences of Rabat Agdal of the University Mohammed V Rabat. He specializes in financial, economic and macro-financial issues. His research works are devoted to the issue of financial stability, systemic risk and dysfunctions of the financial system. In addition to the academic experience of more than 10 years, the author has accumulated experience with the Central Bank of Morocco. In 2022, he joined the world ranking of the best researchers in economics and management of the AD Scientific Index.