I am an associate professor (with tenure) in the Finance Department of HEC Paris, which I joined in 2003. I do empirical research on topics that are at the cross-section of banking, corporate finance, international trade and production networks. For the past decade I have been organizing, with colleagues from HEC Paris, annual research conferences and workshops on banking, finance, macroeconomics and the real economy. I also act as the academic director of the anglophone Executive Master's in Finance, Executive Certificate in Asset Management, and the Executive Certificate in Valuation programs of HEC Paris. I teach various introductory classes on financial economics and financial markets at HEC Paris's Master in Management (offered by HEC Paris's Grande École) and the above-mentioned executive master's and certificate programs offered by HEC Paris's Executive Education. I am appointed by the Finance Department as the academic liaison between the Finance Department and HEC Paris's Executive Education units in Jouy en Josas and Doha. Currently, I serve on the executive committee of the International Banking, Economics, and Finance Association (IBEFA) and as an associate editor for the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.