After working for eight years in the banking sector as a portfolio manager, corporate banker in a corporate and investment bank, and at the General Inspectorate, Dr. Sébastien DUCHENE joined the academic world as a lecturer in economics and finance at the University of Montpellier to do research on bounded rationality, ethical finance, socially responsible investment, and climate finance within the CEE-M laboratory (University of Montpellier, CNRS, INRA, SupAgro) . He also co-founded the first university degree in green finance in France, in partnership with the CIC SUD Ouest, and developed a research collaboration with Mirova, a subsidiary of Natixis, on responsible management.
Graduated from Toulouse Business School, Sciences Po Paris and the University of Côte d’Azur, his work has been published in journals such as Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Social Choice and Welfare, The Lancet Public Health, Theory and Decision, Mathematical Social Sciences and the Economic Review.