Marie Lambert
Marie Lambert has a joint Ph.D. in Finance from the Universities of Liège and Luxembourg (2010). She is Full Professor and Vice-Dean for Research at HEC Liège – Management School of the University of Liège. She holds the Deloitte Chair in Sustainable Finance and leads the track “Banking and Asset Management” of the master in management. She teaches courses on Asset Management, Alternative Investments, Corporate Finance and Financial Modeling. Marie is also Affiliate Professor at EDHEC Business School (Nice) and at Paris Dauphine as well as a Research Associate at the EDHEC Risk Institute and a QMI research fellow. She is an Associate Editor of Global Finance Journal, Credit and Capital Markets, and Applied Finance Letters. She sits at the management board of the BENELUX Corporate Finance Network.
Marie has developed a research expertise in asset pricing models, market anomalies, investment styles (value, growth investing), and hedge funds. Her work has been published in international peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Economic Modelling, Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Empirical Finance, European Financial Management, Venture Capital, Finance (Revue of the French Finance Association) but also in practitioners’ oriented journals such as Bankers, Markets and Investors and Journal of Derivatives and Hedge Funds. Her research has been presented to leading academic and professional conferences. Her current research interests lie in sustainable finance (e.g., climate risk pricing, disagreement in ESG ratings, performance analysis of ESG investments) and private equity.
Marie collaborates regularly with the industry and has developed research partnerships with Ethias SA and Deloitte (Belgium and Luxembourg). She is an academic expert at the FinTech Sopiad, Spinoff of the University of Liège.
Alexandre Scivoletto
Alexandre Scivoletto graduated from Hec Liège in 2019 in Economics with a specialization in Finance. During his studies, Alexandre experienced an Erasmus Belgica at the University of Ghent. He also participated in the London School of Economics Summer School in Analysis and Management of Financial Risk and in HEC Paris Summer School in Mergers & Acquisitions.
Currently, he is a PhD candidate in the financial research department. The tittle of his doctoral thesis is ‘Essays on performance, risk and success of change in corporate ownership’. This thesis will address the undue effects of transactions involving a change in ownership on the performance and risk of these transactions as well as the impact on the various stakeholders (investors, as well as for example employees with an interesting link to labour economics theory).
Alexandre is also President of the student investment club of the school, HEC Investing Group, which is an investment club that manages a real-portfolio of €500,000.
Wale Dare
Wale Dare is researcher working in the field of finance and econometrics. He is currently researching questions about how portfolios of undervalued stocks react to the tone of the news released. He is also interested in the economic life-cycle of hedge fund strategies. Before joining HEC Liège, he was a portfolio manager at Berenberg Bank, where he was responsible for the execution of volatility strategies.
He completed his doctoral degree in financial econometrics at the University of St. Gallen and his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Knox College.
Anouck Faverjon
Anouck Faverjon holds a Master degree in Applied Economics from Paris School of Economics and a Master degree in Economics with a specialization in finance from the University of Edinburgh. She joined HEC Liège as a pre-doctoral Research and Teaching Assistant in 2021.
Her research interests encompass empirical finance, asset pricing, in particular in the field of sustainable finance and ESG ratings, high dimensional methods and Machine Learning techniques. She currently works on a large-scale replication of previous studies in the field of ESG ratings.
Anouck has also been a Teaching Assistant at the University of Paris. She is currently in charge of tutorials and Q&A at HEC Liège for Fund Industry and International Finance courses.
Laurent Prunier
Laurent holds a master’s degree in economics and management science from the University of Liège, Belgium. He recently joined the financial research department of HEC Liège as a PhD candidate. His research centres around sustainable finance, more specifically ESG ratings, building on recent advances in textual analysis.
Before pursuing a PhD, Laurent did a six-month internship in the portfolio management team of Edmond De Rothschild, worked four years as an investment and transaction analyst for the Goodman European Partnership, a real estate fund, and worked one year as a business development analyst in the aviation fuelling industry for Skytanking.
His passion for economics and finance also manifested through various extracurricular activities such as being a member of the HEC Investing Group, representing the university at the CFA research challenge and pursuing the CFA program, with the level 2 passed thus far.
Celeste Hardy
Céleste obtained her master’s degree in management science with a specialization in Banking and Asset Management from HEC Liège in 2021. During her studies, she experienced an Erasmus at HEC Montréal, Canada.
She recently joined the financial research department of HEC Liège as a PhD candidate. Her research mainly focuses on investors’ behaviour in the context of sustainable finance, the so-called ESG.
