Michel Verlaine

Biography

Michel Verlaine has a Phd in Economics and Management. He is an associate professor at ICN business School since March 2008,
and is specialized in topics relating to the Financial Industry and Decision Theory. He manages the Banks, Funds and Markets
specialization which trains specialists that understand the Value Chain and Business Models of the Finance Industry. He teaches
Asset Management, Valuation of Financial Products, Financial Risk Management, Valuation of Structured Financial Products,
Behavioural Finance and the Architecture of Finance as well as Market Microstructure. His field of research is Decision Theory
applied to the finance industry. He has been a regular contributor to the monthly Professional Finance Journal Agefi Finance where
he created the "Research in Finance" page. He is also the intiator of the Economy/Finance page of the Baltic Times. He is also the
author of a book about the Asset Management Industry: The Economics of the Asset Management Industry: A Behavioral
Economics Approach.
Before joining ICN BS he has been working for the Ministry of Economics in Luxembourg in view of the preparation of the
Luxembourgish Presidency of the EU. He was notably involved in preparing and attending the Finance Ministers Eco/Fin meetings.
Following the EU Presidency he joined Ernst & Young's Risk Advisory unit where he was involved in auditing the European
Investment Bank's Risk processes. When he joined ICN BS he was available as a freelance advisor and was involved in risk review
processes of structured products following the subprime crisis. More recently, given his fluency in reading and speaking Russian, he
is also involved in East-West links and is the co-founder of a recently created Foundation called the East-West Institute of Law and
Finance, which has as an aim to develop academic links with CIS countries and launch comparative research projects on the
Architecture of Finance in East and West.