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NEW FACULTY APPOINTMENTS 2019

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I wake up early.I capture a thousand ideas, shake and share them,focus and turn good ones into opportunities.I move forward to make it happen, try, fail, do it again, make it work and improve it with the help of others.

I am a maker.I am an early maker.

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entrepreneurs are makers, we makeentrepreneurs

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86 % of research fellows have a Ph.D. *

18 % are authorised to lead research *

Number of books published over the last 5 years *

72Number of A-ranked articles published over the last 5 years *

129 Number of B-ranked articles published over the last 5 years *

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161 faculties

48% non-French

56% academic track

44% action learning track

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* Key figures 2019

7Asia

147Europe

35%65%

6Africa

1India

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Welcome

emlyon business school welcomes 22 new professors for this new academic year.

As you can see in this booklet, each new comer brings very unique expertise, experience and know-how.

These 22 new professors - just as the other emlyon business school faculty members – come from different backgrounds in terms of nationalities and disciplines and hold diverse perspectives and approaches both in research and pedagogy.

They will each contribute to emlyon business school’s mission “to develop people’s skills for them to achieve personal and professional development throughout their lives, by being efficient within responsible, competitive organizations, wherever they are in the world”.

I wish each new comer to find in emlyon business school’s ecosystem, namely its programs, its institutes, its research centers and campuses and most notably its participants and colleagues, the breeding ground for their professional achievement.

FABIENNE AUTIER // Associate Dean for Faculty

New colleagues around the world- 17

Lyon

3 Casablanca

2 Shanghai

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Researchinterests

organisation, AIM, work, change management

Kartikeya BAJPAIAssistant Professor of Organisation & Change Management - Research trackEcully CampusEntry date: July 1st 2019Citizenship: IndianSocial Sciences & Humanities & AIM Research Center for Work and Organization

Kartik earned his PhD from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

His research interests focus on the embedding of knowledge workers and experts within organizations. He uses a variety of methodological approaches to understand these issues, including, big-data textual analysis, social network analysis, and, fi eld and interview methods.

Prior to starting a PhD, Kartik worked in the non-profi t sector in India. He is a graduate of Penn State (M.S. in Information Science), University of Florida (Information Systems and Operations Management) and National Institute of Technology, Trichy (B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering).

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Lisa BUCHTERAssistant Professor of Social Sciences – Research trackEcully CampusEntry date: September 1st 2019Citizenship: FrenchSocial Sciences and Humanities Group & OCE Research Center

Lisa pursued a joint-PhD degree in Sociology from Sciences Po at the Center for Sociology of Organizations in Paris and from Northwestern University (Chicago, IL.). Her dissertation deals with identity-based social movements and the ways they interact with large companies to foster change in their diversity policies. In France, she has been conducting fi eldwork in non-profi t organizations of diff erent kinds: support groups and advocacy groups for people with disabilities, youth movement developing raising awareness campaign on diff erent minorities, LGBT social movements, mentoring networks and recruitment agencies for «visible minorities,» etc. She earned a Student Paper’s Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems for her article “Tell me your story”, section Disability Studies. Simultaneously, she developed an interest for the cooperative movement in the US, and interned at the National Association for the Students of Cooperation, conducting qualitative research, developing content and visual projects to explore the benefi ts and politics of cooperative living and cooperative structures in general. Her hope is to develop her future research projects on this topic in Europe, looking at housing cooperatives as solution to current social problems (refugee crises, inadequacy of the current retirement system, lack of aff ordable housing options), and worker cooperatives as solution to broader socio-economic issues.

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Researchinterests

discrimination, inequalities, diversity, social movements, organizations, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, disability studies, cooperative, social justice

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Researchinterests

knowledge intensive environments, R&D, innovation and new cooperative forms.

Claire CIAMPIAssociate Professor – Action Learning trackEcully CampusEntry date: September 1st 2019Citizenship: FrenchAccounting & Finance group

Claire earned her PhD in Management Sciences from Paris Dauphine University.

Claire was a Professor in Management Control, Accounting and Finance at Institut Supérieur de Gestion and previously also at IESEG before joining emlyon business school.

Her teaching and her research are anchored in a 12-year fi nancial management work experience (bank, industry, software development and NGOs) where she was actively involved in ERP and analytics software implementations. Since then she studies technology usages and their consequences from a management control and accountability perspective. This led to several communications and the publication of book chapters on BI, analytics and collaborative technologies. Her results mostly extend to knowledge intensive environments like new product development or innovative projects. Currently Claire has started studying how AI and advanced analytics can transform fi nancial management.

Claire has also successfully developed a CGE accreditated executive master in fi nance.

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Researchinterests

adoption of innovation, change and social innovation, institutional change, entre-preneurship, creative fi eld events

Grégoire CROIDIEUAssociate Professor of Entrepreneurship – Research trackEcully CampusEntry date: June 1st 2019Citizenship: FrenchEntrepreneurship and Innovation Group & Entrepreneurship and Innovation Reasearch Center

Grégoire Croidieu earned his PhD in Management from emlyon business school.

He was an associate professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management before joining emlyon business school.

His research combines institutional theory and entrepreneurship and focuses on the legitimation processes that shape the emergence and historical evolution of fi elds and organizations. He has published papers on related topics in various organization theory, entrepreneurship and management journal.

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Researchinterests

trustworthy artifi cial intelligence, AI-enabled digital transformation, business analytics, social cognition and computing, risk and security analysis, scientifi c discovery

Amy Wenxuan DINGLevel 1 professor – Research TrackDeputy Director of Business Intelligence CenterShanghai CampusEntry date: August 1st 2019Citizenship: AmericanODAI Group

Amy obtained PhD in Cognitive Science and Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. She conducts forefront theoretical and empirical research on human-level trustworthy artifi cial intelligence (AI), machine cognition, and their applications in business analytics, digital transformation and marketing, and mobile health. Her research has appeared in various top-tier journals including Information Systems Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Decision Support Systems, Springer Computational Intelligence Series, the Proceedings of Association for Advancement of Artifi cial Intelligence, Defense & Security Analysis, Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, Oxford Journal of Management Mathematics, and Safety Science. One of her recent research papers received the Best Paper Award in the Human-Computer Interaction Track at the prestigious International Conference in Information Systems in 2016. Her book “Social Computing in Homeland Security: Disaster Promulgation and Response” has been used as a textbook and training materials by many federal and local emergency response authorities and universities in U.S., U.K., South Korean, Australia, India, as well as other countries.

Recently, she presented a novel dynamic model, enabling a machine to generate real-time intelligence in response to unknown unknowns, at one of the most prestigious annual conferences on artifi cial intelligence (the 28th international joint conference on AI), August 10-16, 2019. She is a member of the IEEE standards committee on Wellbeing Metrics Standard for Ethical AI and Autonomous Systems. She co-organized 2019 AAAI (Association for Advancement of Artifi cial Intelligence) Spring Symposium on Interpretable AI at Stanford University to address ethic issues on discrimination and enable transparency and fairness in automatic algorithmic decisions.

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Researchinterests

valuation and evaluation, social impact start-ups, business acceleration, impact investing, independent contracting, creative work

Guillaume DUMONTAssistant Professor – Research trackEcully CampusEntry date: September 1st 2019Citizenship: BelgianSocial Sciences and Humanities group & OCE research center

Guillaume earned a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Lyon and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Prior to joining emlyon business school, he was a Juan de la Cierva fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and has hold visiting positions at IESE Business School, the Jönköping International Business School, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute and Colorado University at Boulder.

From studying professional rock climbers in the Yosemite National Park to work alongside social entrepreneurs and business acceleration programs in Barcelona, Guillaume research looks at how people create things at work and what makes these things valuable. Ethnographic in nature, his work provides a sociological understanding of worth construction in organizational and entrepreneurial processes.

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Researchinterests

micro-foundations of strategy, error management, inclusive leadership, Servant leadership, sensemaking

Vincent GIOLITOAssociate Professor – Action Learning trackCasablanca CampusEntry date: September 1st 2019Citizenship: FrenchStrategy and business model Group

Vincent Giolito holds a DBA from Paris-Dauphine University. Prior to joining emlyon business school, he was a Senior Researcher with the Baillet-Latour Chair in Error Management at Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management - ULB.

His research focuses on executive management in relation to organizational performance, which places it at the intersection of Human Resources/Organizational Behavior and strategy. He explores how HR systems and culture, as infl uenced by executive leadership, align with critical organizational goals; and what executives should do to develop alignment in a changing environment. His connection with executives dates back from his years as a business journalist and executive advisor.

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Researchinterests

social innovation, power and resistance within organisations, strategy making

Damon GOLSORKHIAssociate Professor – Action Learning trackEcully CampusEntry date: September 1st 2019Citizenship: IranianStrategy & Business Models group

Damon holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the Université de Lorraine and is graduate of Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sociology) and Université de Paris Dauphine (Management Science).

He studies primarily the craft of strategy by focusing on relational and distributive dimensions like practices, activity, culture or power by using qualitative (mainly ethnography) and experimental (fi eld experiments) methods. Before joining emlyon business school, he was an associate professor of innovation and strategic management at Grenoble Ecole de Management. He has held also diff erent positions at Hanken School of Economics (Finland), Nagoya University of Commerce and Business (Japan), Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and Rouen Business School (France). He has co-edited several books including the ‘Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice’ and has published in journals like Organization, M@n@gement or Revue Française de Gestion among others. Prior to the academic life, he worked as a strategy consultant.

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Researchinterests

international business, global strategy, merger & acquisition, corporate governance

Tao HANAssistant Professor of Strategy – Research trackEcully Campus Entry date: September 1st 2019Citizenship: ChineseStrategy and Business Model group & STORM Research Center

Tao holds a PhD in Management from Tilburg University.

His primary research interests are in the intersection of international business and strategy. Specifi cally, he uses diff erent theories of the fi rm and econometric analyses to understand the behavioral factors in fi rms’ corporate development strategies (e.g., global strategy and M&As) and how they translate into fi rm performance.  

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Researchinterests

psychological well-being at work, proactive employee behaviors, work design, work-family interface, leadership, organizational change

Lotta HARJUAssistant Professor of OB – Research trackEcully Campus Entry date: September 1st 2019Citizenship: FinnishOB and Leadership Group & CBT Research Center

Lotta earned her PhD in 2017 from KU Leuven (Belgium) and Aalto University School of Science (Finland).

Prior to joining emlyon business school, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Business and Economics at Vrije University Amsterdam. She has also held a research position at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health.

Her research focuses on topics such as burnout, boredom and engagement at work and the contextual and individual factors that contribute to these psychological states. She is interested in how individuals feel and behave at work, particularly in times of transition and change, and the role of their social environment and social position in these processes. She uses both qualitative and quantitative research methods in her research, such as longitudinal SEM, multilevel modelling, growth modelling and person-centered methods.

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Researchinterests

auditing, fi nancial reporting, IFRS, management accounting, performance management and control, fi nancial decisions, sustainable development strategies, skill-based accounting education

Iliya KOMAREVAssociate Professor of Accounting - Action Learning trackAcademic DeanCasablanca Campus Entry date: September 1st 2019Citizenship: BulgarianAccounting and Finance Group

Iliya Komarev holds a PhD in Management Sciences from Bordeaux University.

Before joining emlyon business school, he has held academic positions at IAE Bordeaux, Edhec Business School, and Abu Dhabi University. He is an experienced instructor and learning designer.

Iliya’s research interests cover a range of accounting, auditing and fi nance topics. The main theme across the these topics is the relevance of accounting/fi nancial information and the relevance of accounting professionals for developing businesses and the society as a whole. He uses a variety of research methodologies and techniques.

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Researchinterests

business applica-tions for artifi cial intelligence, marketing analytics, digital advertising, big data-driven predictive modelling, social media analytics, text mining of user-generated content, IT- enabled intelligent manufacturing, industry 4.0

Ajay KUMARAssistant Professor of – Research trackEcully Campus Entry date: September 1st 2019Citizenship: IndianODAI Group & AIM research center on Artifi cial Intelligence in Value

Ajay’s expertise lies in helping companies leverage data-science, machine learning, AI and business analytics for competitive advantage and to understand of how consumers, fi rms, industries and societies are being reshaped by the big-data and business analytics revolution. His research and teaching interests are in data and text mining, decision support systems, knowledge management, business intelligence and enterprise modeling.

Prior to joining emlyon business school, he was successively a postdoctoral scientist in «business analytics & information systems» domain at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Business School, Harvard University.

Prior to his postdoctoral appointments, he received his PhD degree from IIT Delhi where he worked to develop the big data-driven predictive models in telecom & manufacturing sectors. His research work has been published in several high impact journals including Industrial Marketing Management, International Journal of Production Research, Telematics & Informatics, Journal of Computational Data Science, among others.

He has rich industrial experience and his past experience as an «Analytics Specialist/Data Scientist» at Harvard, IIT Delhi, Accenture Management Consulting, STMicroelectronics and IBM Research Lab, confi rmed his intention to develop his research skills and goals in business analytics & information systems domain.

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Researchinterests

buyer-seller negotiation, key account management and team selling, sales education, frontline management, salesforce motivation, salesforce satisfaction.

Christine LAIAssociate Professor – Action Learning trackEcully Campus Entry date: February 1st 2019Citizenships: Taiwanese and FrenchMarketing Group

Christine holds a PhD in Marketing (area: Sales Force Management) from ESSEC Business School and a Doctorate in Economics, Mathematics and Management from Cergy-Pontoise University.

Prior to joining emlyon business school, she was an Associate Professor of Marketing at Laval University, Canada.

Her research interests focus on sales force satisfaction and motivation, seller-buyer negotiation, key account team selling, and sales & marketing education. She received excellent teaching awards from Laval University for two consecutive years, in 2017 and in 2018. Currently, she serves at leadership board in National Conference in Sales Management USA and the research grant evaluation committee from Fonds de recherche société et culture Québec (FRQSC).

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Researchinterests

digital platform ecosystem strategy, open source software ecosystem, technology innovation management, entrepreneurship, international business, technology entrepreneurship

Sai LANAssociate professor – Track Action LearningAcademic Director of EDP programShanghai CampusEntry date: August 1st 2019Citizenship: ChineseInnovation and Entrepreneurship Group

Dr. Lan earned his PhD in Strategy and Entrepreneurship from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. He was on the faculty of Peking University HSBC Business School for almost a decade. And he was the founding director of its Research Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship.

Dr. Lan’s research interests focus on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, with special emphasis on digital platform and open source software ecosystems. Dr. Lan has published over 30 research papers in SSCI and CSSCI journals, peer-reviewed academic books, and major academic conferences, including a Best Paper Award in AOM annual conference 2015. He provided media commentaries for Shenzhen TV, Phoenix TV, TV Korea, China Daily, Southern Daily, and Global Talents, etc. Dr. Lan also had extensive industry experiences. He worked as software architect for tech giant Motorola and startup companies in the US. He also provided consulting and executive training services to companies in China, including China Post, PKU Shenzhen Research Institute and many startups.

He will also serve as the Asia Representative for Academy of Management STR division.

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Researchinterests

behavioral fi nance, behavioral economics, experimental fi nance, experimental economics, game theory, economics of information

Jacopo MAGNANIAssociate Professor – Research trackEcully Campus Entry date: September 1st 2019Citizenship: ItalianAccounting and Finance Group

Research interests: He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and he has held positions at Purdue University and New York University Abu Dhabi.

Jacopo is a fi nancial economist who uses laboratory experiments to study economic decision-making and strategic interactions.

His research has been published in leading economics journals, such as the American Economic Review and the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, and has been supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant.

Jacopo’s recent work focuses on strategic thinking and information extraction in asset markets. His experiments aim to shed light on why people fail to anticipate adverse selection and trade in markets with private information. In another line of work, he is developing a series of laboratory tests of rationality in dynamic investment decisions.

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Researchinterests

supply chain management, customer–supplier relationships, corporate social responsibility, CSR reporting

Haithem NAGATIAssociate Professor of – Action Learning trackEcully Campus Entry date: September 1st 2019Citizenship: TunisianODAI Group

Haithem earned his Doctorate in management sciences at Grenoble Alpes University and gained his habilitation to supervise PhD at Aix-Marseille University. He was Dean for Research at ICD International Business School from the Groupe IGS.

His research interests focus on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and management of supply chain relationship.

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Researchinterests

artifi cial intelligence, human-robot interaction, human-machine interaction, aff ective computing, social signal processing, image and signal processing, user-centered design, computer science, data science

Hanan SALAMAssociate Professor – Action Learning trackEcully CampusEntry date : September 1st 2019Citizenship: French / LebaneseODAI Group

Hanan holds a PhD in Artifi cial Intelligence from Centrale Supélec. She was a research and teaching assistant at Paris Sorbonne University before joining emlyon business school.

She is the co-founder and the head of education and research of Women in AI, a non-profi t Do-Tank whose mission is to close the gender gap in the domain of Artifi cial Intelligence through education, research and events.

Previously she worked at A.I.Mergence, a startup in robotics and Artifi cial Intelligence specialized in intelligent autonomous robots for home security.

She has published several international peer-reviewed conferences and journals on social robotics and intelligent aff ective computing. Her scientifi c interests include Artifi cial Intelligence, human-computer interaction, social robotics, computer vision, machine learning and aff ective computing.

She is an advocate of technology for common good and an activist for women empowerment.

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Researchinterests

quality management, corporate social responsibility, supply chain management, electronic commerce

Ismail SILAAssociate Professor – Research trackEcully Campus Entry date: September 1st 2019Citizenship: CypriusODAI Group

Ismail earned his PhD in Business Administration from the University of Rhode Island in 2002. He started his professional career at Edwards School of Business at the University of Saskatchewan as an Associate Professor (2002-2011). Prior to joining emlyon business school, he held positions as a professor at Near East University and Girne American University in Northern Cyprus (2012-2019). He also spent a year at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey. In addition, he served as the Dean of Faculty of Business and Economics at Girne American University for a few years.

He conducts research in several fi elds, including operations management, management information systems, business ethics, and strategic management. He published his research in some of the leading journals in these fi elds, such as the Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and the European Journal of Information Systems, among others. His articles have been highly cited by other researchers. He also received several awards such as the Best Paper Award for the Production & Operations Management Division of ASAC at the 2009 Conference.

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Thinley THARCHENAssistant Professor of Organization - Research trackEcully Campus Entry date: September 1st 2019Citizenship: IndianStrategy and Business Models Group & STORM Research Center

Thinley holds a PhD in Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University.

He studies innovation from a social construction of technology perspective.

Previously he successfully worked as an academic teaching assistant in Finance and Economics, within the MBA program of the Indian School of Business in India, and he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Strategy and Organization Research Center (STORM) at emlyon business school.

His current research investigates the process of emergence of new product categories in a stigmatized industry context. Relatedly, he is also studying how institutional contexts shape innovation processes and outcomes.

Researchinterests

innovation process, qualitative research methods, innovation and institutions, stigmatized industries, category emergence

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Ruiqi WEIAssistant Professor – Research trackEcully Campus Entry date: September 1st 2019Citizenship: ChineseMarketing Group

Ruiqi holds a PhD in Marketing from UCD Smurfi t Business School. His research focuses on digital marketing in a B2B context and digital platforms. Specifi cally, he studies how digital platforms infl uence business networks in an online context.

Ruiqi investigates how solution providers can leverage their digital platforms to orchestrate solution networks to provide customized solutions and how online B2B marketplaces are playing a signifi cant role in the B2B markets.

His research has been presented at international conferences such as American Marketing Association (AMA) Winter Conference, Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference, and Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Conference.

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Researchinterests

B2B marketing in a digital context, B2B networks, servitization, solution business, digital platforms

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Lisa XIONGAssociate Professor of Strategic Management– Action Learning trackEcully CampusEntry date: September 1st 2019Citizenship: ChineseStrategy and Business Models Group

Lisa earned her DBA from Ecole des Ponts, Paris Tech, France.

Previously she was an Assistant Professor at IE Exponential Learning and a Senior Research Associate at Center for Policy & Competitiveness at École des Ponts Business School, Paris.

Her recent research focuses on how diff erent ideas of ethics shape how artifi cial intelligence can be eff ectively applied and leveraged as a source of competitive advantage, and more fundamentally, on how the competitive use of artifi cial intelligence cannot be diff erentiated from the specifi c ethical claims...

Researchinterests

inequality in China, competitiveness, entrepreneurship, innovation in China, nascent business models, inter-nationalization, global cross-cultural issues

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Alexandra ZINSAssociate Professor of Finance - Action Learning trackCasablanca Campus Entry date: September 1st 2019Citizenship: FrenchAccounting & Finance Group

Alexandra Zins holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Strasbourg.

She taught Corporate management, Economic policy and International trade in addition to her PhD research for second-year students at Sciences Po Strasbourg.

Her research topics cover banking systems in African and Middle Eastern economies. Financial inclusion, fi nancial stability and bank effi ciency are her main research interests. In the future, she would like to study the link between Islamic banking and fi nancial inclusion and to focus some future research on the eff ects of fi nancial inclusion by studying the concrete impacts of access to credit and fi nancial services on daily life of African fi rms and households notably. Indeed, she is interested in studying the side eff ects of fi nancial inclusion and the potential risks of a fast expansion.

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Researchinterests

fi nancial systems in African countries, fi nancial inclusion, islamic fi nance, fi nancial stability

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