Messaoud CHIBANE is the director of the MSc Finance & Big Data and assistant-professor in Finance. He focuses his research on asset valuation, the link between macroeconomics and financial markets as well as sustainable finance and cryptocurrencies. A graduate from Ecole Centrale Paris, he also holds a DEA in Applied Economics from the University of Paris - La Sorbonne as well as a PhD in Finance from EDHEC Business School. In addition to his academic career, Messaoud CHIBANE worked for 18 years in financial markets as a quantitative analyst for several international investment banks and has published in several practitioners’journals such as Risk Magazine and the Wilmott Journal and international peer-reviewed journals such as Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Applied Economics, Economic Modeling and European Journal of Finance.