Erwann Michel-Kerjan is Managing Director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, a center with over 20 years of experience in developing business strategies and public policies for dealing with catastrophic risks.
He is also Faculty Research Associate at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris where he completed his doctoral studies before joining Wharton in 2002. He has also studied or been visiting scholar at McGill, Columbia and Harvard.
He has authored or co-authored over 50 publications at the crossroads of financial management and global risk governance and his view regularly appears in leading media.
He serves as expert or advisor on these emerging issues for many corporations and government bodies, and he is a founding member of the OECD’s Secretary General Advisory Board on Financial Management of Large-scale Risks and of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Network.
In 2007, Erwann Michel-Kerjan was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (Davos), an honor bestowed to recognize and acknowledge the most extraordinary leaders of the world under the age of 40.
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