Thierry
APOTEKER, Chief Economist & Managing Director Thierry
graduated from the top French school of management HEC and obtained a
Doctorate in monetary economics from the University of Paris Dauphine.
He started as a junior economist in a French think tank (B.I.P.E.) and
then moved to Banque Indosuez (now Credit Agricole Indosuez / Calyon)
where he set up the country risk division before becoming the bank's chief
economist and head of the Research Department. Thierry left the bank in
1990 to create the consultancy group that bears his name. He taught banking
and financial economics at the University of Rennes as an Associate Professor
until 1997, is a frequent lecturer on international economics in many
academic institutions (HEC, IGR, ENSAI), and is a speaker at many international
conferences on banking as well as on country risk.
Sylvain BARTHELEMY,
Research Director
Sylvain is in charge of the implementation of data analysis
and non-linear logic methods as well as more standard econometrics. He
joined TAC in 1995 with a pre-doctoral degree in Monetary Economics from
Rennes University. He is a recognized expert in quantitative analysis
(econometrics, data mining,...), neural networks, genetic algorithms and
computer science. Sylvain wrote many papers on modern statistical methods
for data analysis (self-organizing maps, genetic algorithms,…) used
as fast algorithms for complex combinatorial problems.
Isabelle LEGRAND,
Senior Economist Isabelle joined TAC in July 2001, and
she started as one of our key quantitative analyst and economist. After
these years of highly technical work, she has now taken a much more senior
position, being responsible of our knowledge base, i.e. all the
inputs (quantitative as well as qualitative) that the team is using in
its research and studies. She has also taken the responsibility of Project
Management, mostly our dealings and contracts with multilateral donors
and institutions, where TAC has now greater ambitions. She graduated from
Rennes University with a pre-doctoral degree in econometrics and data
mining techniques. Isabelle remains a key element in TAC’s quantitative
expertise and abilities and continues to participate in econometric modelling.
Email: leg@tac-financial.com
Sandrine LUNVEN, Quantitative
Economist
Sandrine LUNVEN has joined us in April 2007 to work on an
in-depth research on contagion effects in emerging markets. She completed
her Master’s Degree in econometrics and data mining with a specialization
in cyclical / economic analysis and forecasting at Rennes University.
She is now working as an economist.
Email: lunven@tac-financial.com
Matthieu PAUTONNIER,
Quantitative Economist
Matthieu initially joined us in April 2008 as an intern to
work on an in-depth research involving the improvement of our quantitative
tool of country risk analysis. Matthieu has completed his Master’s
Degree in econometrics and data mining techniques, with a specialization
in cyclical analysis and forecasts, at Rennes University, and he obtained
the highest award for his research work in september 2008. He is now a
member of our quantitative research team, especially in the field of complex
modeling.
Email: matthieu.pautonnier@tac-financial.com
Vivien MASSOT, Economist
Vivien joined TAC in January 2009 as an economist, and he
worked on our country risk analyses as well as on the specific country
studies. Before joining us, Vivien was Financial Attaché in the
Embassy of France in India for 2 years, in charge of the economic follow-up
of India and South-Asian countries (growth, monetary and budgetary policies,
etc.) and of development issues in relations with the World Bank and IMF.
Vivien has since then returned back to India, where he develops our customer
network. In the same time, he is responsible of our qualitative knowledge
base. Vivien has a Master’s Degree in Economic Theory and Econometrics
from Toulouse University, followed by the Third Year teachings of ENSAE,
with a specialization in Forecasting and Economic Policy.
Email: massot@tac-financial.com
Sofia PESCA, Project
Management and Development
Sofia has joined us to support
Isabelle on project management issues. Before joining TAC, Sofia was project
administrator at the EHESP School of Public Health, and was in charge
of international cooperation programmes with Latin America and Eastern
European countries, a job that included backstopping activity for missions,
logistics and tender preparation. Besides she teaches Spanish at ENSAI
and SUPELEC, two French Grandes Ecoles.
Email: pesca@tac-financial.com
Laurence FEDERICI,
Finance and Administration Manager
Laurence has been with TAC
since the beginning, dealing with all our administrative and management
items. Laurence has a pre-doctoral degree in applied linguistics from
Paris University, and started her interest with economics when doing translation
of economic bulletins for international banking institutions back in the
80s. All administrative, payment and purchase matters have to be dealt
with her.
Email: fede@tac-financial.com
Jocelyne VAUBOURG,
Customer Relation Manager
Jocelyne joined T-A-C in 1999 after
working for many years in the international marketing department of a
multinational electronic group. Jocelyne is in charge of commercial development
and customer relations. Do not hesitate to contact her for any question
on TAC's services.
Email: vau@tac-financial.com
D. and M. JOUAN-CROSS,
Translators
David and Marianne have joined us to translate
some of our documents, especially Jean-Pierre Patat’s Newsletter
and the Banker’s view. Before retiring, David was an independent
British consultant specialized in education and development issues.
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Jean-Pierre PATAT, Special Advisor
After graduating
from the Paris Institute for Political Studies, Jean-Pierre Patat started
his career at the Banque de France in the early 60s. He afterwards held
different positions at INSEE, at the Fed New York and at the French Planning
Commission. He returned to the French central bank as a Director of Monetary
Studies and Statistics and moved up to the top position of Director General,
at the Banque de France, in charge of research and international relations,
and was named Honorary Director General when retiring in December 2001.
Jean-Pierre authored many books on money and finance, and is lecturing
at many prestigious French institutions. At TAC, Jean-Pierre provides
high calibre advisory services, and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience
on both banking and monetary issues, as well as on Sub-Saharan Africa.
Thierry DA, Senior
Advisor for Asia
Engineer (Ecole Centrale Paris) and civil servant
(ENA), Thierry DA has occupied various positions in French domestic and
international institutions. He spent three years in Tokyo as financial
attaché at the French Embassy, monitoring Asia for the French Ministry
of Economy and Finance, then eight years with Banque Indosuez (now CALYON)
as deputy general manager in Japan and Senior vice-president for the Far
East at he bank’s headquarters in Paris. After being CEO of the
French subsidiary of SEDGWICK, the British insurance broker, for a couple
of years, he was then Senior Banker at IXIS Corporate & Investment
Bank in charge of some major French Corporates and Institutions in the
Middle East and Asia. He joins TAC as a senior advisor, notably on Asia.
Email: da@tac-financial.com
Thomas CHOONG, Strategic
Advisor for Asia
Thomas graduated from the University of Bath (UK) with a
BSc Engineering First Class Honours and a PhD in 1982 under the UK Science
and Engineering Research Council scholarship. He was with IBM for more
than 6 years as the general manager for its emerging network computing
business in ASEAN. Then, he spent 2 years with Sun Microsystems since
1997 and was the Managing Director of iPlanet (a Sun/Netscape Alliance
in South Asia). Thomas is presently the founder and executive director
of Waylion Advisory and Consulting, a business advisory and consulting
practice focused on assisting tech, media and services companies in business
strategic planning, development and capital access and founded in early
2008. He is also a director of of Elipva Ltd, Ematrix Pte Ltd ( since
2000) and Xi Yan Pte Ltd (since 2005) which were all co-founded by him.
Joining TAC as a strategic advisor on Asia, based in Singapore, Thomas
will significantly enhance our marketing and customer support abilities
in Asia.
Email: thomas@waylion.com
Arman AHUNBAEV, Economist
After obtaining his Research Master’s degree in
Economic and Social Policies, Arman obtained a Doctorate in Economics
at Grenoble II University. During his doctoral studies, he was in charge
of monetary economics seminars at the Economic Faculty and of transition
economics course at the Technological University Institute. Arman also
managed several Tempus-Tacis projects (European Commission) for Espace
Europe Research Institute of Grenoble II University and was an expert
for some of them. He has joined TAC in April 2010 in order to work on
macroeconomics and country risk analyses as well as on specific country
studies.
Email: arman.ahunbaev@tac-financial.com
Agneta FORSLUND, Economist
Agneta Forslund has joined TAC in
April 2010 as an economist. She has a Master’s Degree in economics
/econometrics with a specialization in cyclical analysis and forecasting
at Rennes University. She works on country risk analyses as well as on
specific country studies. Agneta has been working as a consulting engineer
in economics for the French National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA)
for the past five years on different research and studies, modelling and
analyzing world agricultural and biofuels markets.
Email: agneta.forslund@tac-financial.com
Catherine DENIS, Quantitative
Analyst
Catherine has joined TAC
in June 2007 as a quantitative analyst. She is in charge of the data management
and updating for our RiskMonitor service and supports all quantitative
development and research at TAC. She has a Master’s Degree in econometrics
and statistics from Rennes University and has worked for the past few
years as a statistical analyst in a French pension fund before joining
TAC.
Email: catherine.denis@tac-financial.com
Benjamin TREMPONT,
intern Benjamin joined us in April to work on short-term
oil prices modeling for his internship project. Benjamin will complete
his Master’s Degree in econometrics and data mining techniques in
september 2010, with a specialization in cyclical analysis and forecasts,
at Rennes University.
Email: benjamin.trempont@tac-financial.com
Sylvain EYDIEUX
Sylvain Eydieux is the founder and managing director of
a start-up specializing in Web-oriented software development, TEMSOFT.
He is himself a software development engineer, graduated from Ecole Supérieure
d'Ingénieurs en Génie Electrique (ESIGELEC) with a specialization
in 'Développement de Projets et Génie Logiciel' (DPGL).
TAC and TEMSOFT have been working intensively together during the past
year, building a strong relationship and creating very positive synergies
between economic / econometric research and operational/ web-based tool
putting this research to the best possible use of large corporations or
administrations. If you want to contact Sylvain Eydieux, please go to
eydieux@temsoft.net
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