I grew up in France. After graduating from high school, and spending two years in Classe Prepa, I joined ENSAI, a graduate school affiliated with the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies because I wanted to do something less theoretical, more orientated towards data and real-world questions. This is where I discovered economics, and more specifically econometrics, which applies mathematical and statistical methods to address economic questions. I then spent one year at the University of Montreal and joined the MSc in mathematical and computational finance. After graduating, I worked as a research associate under Professor Eric Renault’s supervision, a leader in financial econometrics, at a local research center, CIRANO. I really enjoyed my experience and decided I wanted to ‘do more research’ in econometrics. A few months later, I was starting my PhD in Economics under
Professor Renault’s supervision. After graduating, I started working at in the Economics department at SFU; and I have been here ever since.

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  Simon Fraser University (SFU)

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada