MASTER IN FINANCIAL ENGINEERING - Africa Business School

Nicole El Karoui

Emeritus professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University, she previously taught at École Polytechnique for ten years. With over forty years of research, she specializes in finance optimization, particularly in stochastic processes and financial modeling. As founder of the financial mathematics research team at École Polytechnique, she has received numerous global awards. Her work on Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDEs) has improved risk management and derivative pricing, while her research in stochastic control has vital financial applications. She also developed advanced educational programs in financial mathematics, enhancing her academic impact.

Nizar Touzi

a professor and chair of the Finance Department at NYU. He served as a professor of applied mathematics at École Polytechnique from 2006 to 2023 and was previously a tenured professor at Imperial College London. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad in 2010. He received the Louis Bachelier Prize from the French Academy of Sciences in 2012 and the Paris Europlace Prize for Best Young Researcher in Finance in 2007. In 2010, he held the Dean’s Distinguished Chair position at the University of Toronto. Nizar Touzi is also a co-editor and associate editor for several international journals in the fields of financial mathematics, applied probability, and control theory

Youssef Ouknine

an affiliate professor at Africa Business School. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Pierre and Marie Curie University, obtained in 1987, and a “Doctorat d’État” from Cadi Ayyad University (UCA) in 1990. He has been teaching at UCA since 1990 and has been affiliated with UM6P since 2018. A resident member of the Hassan II Academy of Sciences and Technology since 2006, he is also a founding member of a Centre of Excellence labeled “Emerging Regional Centres of Excellence” (ERCE) by the European Mathematical Society for the period 2016-2020. As a professor and thesis supervisor, he has taught numerous graduate courses and collaborated with various universities and research centers internationally, including in Germany, China, France, and Australia .

anas abdullah

holds a PhD in Actuarial Science from Laval University in Canada, as well as an engineering degree and an MSc in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from INSA Toulouse in France. He is currently a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University, where he also coordinates the Actuarial and Financial Mathematics program. With over ten years of experience in the non-life insurance industry, he participates in the professional Master’s program in Financial Mathematics and supervises postdoctoral researchers, PhD candidates, and MSc students. Anas has been a visiting professor at UM6P/ABS and has previously held positions at the Université du Québec à Montréal and Laval University. He is also a reviewer and associate editor for several actuarial journals and a consultant for ACTEX .

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Nicole El Karoui

Nizar Touzi

Youssef Ouknine

anas abdullah