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Curriculum Vitae de Brault

Julien, PhD

ECONOMIST – INTERNATIONAL FINANCE

Research, Courses, Advices, Analysis, Reports and Policy Recommendations in Economics, Economic Policy, Financial Markets, Monetary Affairs, International Affairs, Corporate Finance, Energy, Infrastructure

SciencesPo Paris – Graduate Institute Geneva

Born in 1984

Skills and Expertise :

• Economic and Financial Analysis
• Economic Policy : International economic policies in the short and long run - Competition policy - Energy policy - Transport policy - Infrastructure and growth
• Financial Markets : Regulation and rent seeking - Private debt - Corporate deleveraging - Country and corporate ratings - Quantitative easing
• International Finance : Evolutions of the international financial system – Role of the dollar, the euro, the sterling, and international currencies - Capital controls - Foreign exchange control
• International Trade : Trade restrictions
• List of publications

• Quantitative Skills :

• Econometric modelling : experience in time series, panel data, data envelopment analysis, generalized method of moments, VAR, some knowledge of spatial econometrics
• Extensive experience in statistical packages : R, Matlab (used at the Graduate Institute), Stata (used at the EIB), SAS-SPSS (good knowledge), Eviews (used at SciencesPo), Gretl. Some knowledge of GIS softwares
• Extensive experience in data sources and management : Excellent knowledge of Excel and VBA (three very large and complex databases built for PhD and research assistantships). Experience in data sources : Bloomberg, Datastream, Orbis, Amadeus, Eurostat, Ameco, Access. Extensive experience in data of balances of payments, exchange rates, private debt, sovereign and corporate bonds, ratings, trade, energy, infrastructure, firm-level and regional data. Built entire databases from scratch for PhD thesis

• Policy and International Affairs Expertise :

• Experience in producing official reports : traineeship at the European Investment Bank, traineeship offer at the European Central Bank for September 2015
• Several experiences in collaboration with international organisations (PhD in Geneva), economic organisations (OECD, ECB, EIB, Bank of France) and top-rate international universities (Berkeley)
• Expertise in geopolitics. Deep knowledge of European and American politics, economic transition issues, Middle-Eastern and North African questions, geopolitical aspects of development policies
• Three languages. Bilingual English-French, fluent German

• Publication and Communication Experience :

• Experience in high-level policy and research publications : two published papers, four papers currently submitted for publication, conception of a report for the EIB , collaborated to two papers published in top journals
• Experience in high-level oral presentations : participation to 4 conferences, 3 colloquia, numerous seminars, more than 50 hours of taught classes for top-rate universities at the BA and MA levels, conception of numerous Powerpoints for high-level conferences

Professional Experience :

September 2015 : Traineeship offer : Post-Doctoral Economist and Policy Analyst - European Central Bank ˃ Economics Department ˃ Country Surveillance Division - Frankfurt

January - July 2015: Post-Doctoral Economist and Policy Analyst Trainee - European Investment Bank ˃ Economics Department ˃ Economic Studies Division - Luxembourg
Traineeship at the public bank of the European Union.
• Topics of research :
o Corporate Deleveraging. Theory, History, Policy.
o Infrastructure and Growth : a New Regional Network Analysis.
• Activities :
o Synthesis and critic of latest international theoretical and empirical research in macroeconomics (IMF, World Bank, OECD, ECB, EIB, IIF...)
o Management of large datasets with Stata and Excel, firm-level and regional-level datasets at the European level (Bloomberg, Orbis, Eurostat, Ameco, GIS)
o Production of statistics, charts, tables and reports, analyses of leverage levels, financial results, productivity, energy and transport integration at the sectorial, national and European level
o Building of statistical models for data analysis, panel data regressions
o Provision of economic rationales, historical comparisons and policy responses
(Declined offer – Postdoctoral Policy Analyst – European Commission ˃ External Action Service ˃ Western Europe Division)

2009 – 2014 – PhD Economist - Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies - Geneva
PhD in International Economic Relations
• Job-market paper : "French Oil Protectionism and the International Political Economy of Rent Seeking"
• Second PhD paper : "The Political Economy of French Foreign Exchange Control"
• Book-long project : The International Transactions of France in the 20th Century
• Along with several other publications (see List of publications)

2010 – PhD Teaching Assistant – International Affairs Department – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies – Geneva
In charge of the organisation of the Master in International Affairs and Teaching Assistant
• MA level :
o Quantitative Easing (Institute for Administrative and Management Studies, Paris)
o The Political Economy of Ratings (with Marc Flandreau, Princeton)
o Access to Finance in Emerging Countries (Institute for Administrative and Management Studies, Paris)
o International business (with Simon Evenett, St. Gallen)
o Politics and Practice of Reforms in the International Organisations (with Bruce Jenks, UNDP)
o Politics and Economics of International Energy (with Giacomo Luciani, Princeton)
o Climate Diplomacy (with Johannah Bernstein)
• BA level :
o General Economics (Tocqueville Institute, Paris)
o Geopolitics (Institute for Administrative and Management Studies, Paris)
o Contemporary History (Tocqueville Institute, Paris)
• Organisation of classes and seminars, website management

2008 – 2009 – PhD Research Assistant
• SciencesPo Paris - International Finance Chair
o Collaboration to the conception of a research paper on the international roles of the dollar and the sterling by Barry Eichengreen and Marc Flandreau
o Conception of a very large and complex Excel database on currencies and gold reserves of central banks and multilateral exchange rates at the world level :
• Centralisation and database construction of the information coming from more than 30 countries, data gathering in central banks over a year
• Liaison with a team of a dozen researchers between SciencesPo and Berkeley
o Important publication in international finance (« The Rise and Fall of the Dollar »)
• Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies - International Economics Department
o Collaboration to the conception of a published paper on the Indian State bonds market by Marc Flandreau and Kim Oosterlinck

2007 – MA Research Assistant – SciencesPo Paris – Technip
Conception of a study on the long run evolution of one of the main multinational oil engineering companies, at the Head Direction, under the supervision of the General Secretary
o Econometric analysis of the evolution of the company
o Conception of a book about the history of the company

2006 – Volunteer - NGO "Moyocani" : Language teacher for underpriviledged children, Zihuatanejo, Mexico

2005 – Economist and consultant for several organizations in Paris :
o Société Générale
o State Bank of India
o Les Echos (Financial Times Group)
o Areva

Education :

PhD – International Economic Relations - Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva - 2013
Classes taken : Econometrics – Econometric Softwares - Panel Data Analysis - Time Series Analysis - Advanced methods in econometrics – Economic and Financial History – Political Economy of the Subprime Crisis – European Integration

MA – Economics - Speciality Financial Governance – SciencesPo Paris – 2007
Classes taken : Econometrics – Fiscal Economics – European Economics – Central Banking – Sovereign and Corporate Ratings - Development – Market Finance – Corporate Finance – Economic History

MA – Political Science - Speciality Economic Governance – SciencesPo Paris – 2007
Classes taken : Political Science – International Relations – Economics – History – Sociology – English – German

MA – History - Speciality Economic History – Sorbonne, Paris – 2007
Classes taken : Contemporary Economic and Social History – Business History

BA – Philosophy – Sorbonne, Paris - 2005
BA – History – Sorbonne, Paris - 2005
Prepschool (BA) – Literature and Human Sciences – Claude Monet, Paris - 2005

Languages :

French : native
English : bilingual, 10 years of studying, working and publishing experience in English
German : fluent

Centers of interests :

Contemporary poetry, China
Ski mountaineering, sailing, tennis

References :

o Pr Marc Flandreau, Professor of Economics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies - Princeton (PhD supervisor)
o Philip-Bastian Brutscher, Economist, European Investment Bank (Post-doctoral traineeship supervisor)
o Pr Dominique Barjot, Professor of Economic History, Sorbonne (PhD jury member and Master's thesis supervisor)
o Dr Atanas Kolev, Economist, European Investment Bank (Post-doctoral traineeship co-supervisor)
o Pr Gopalan Balachandran, Professor of Economics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (PhD second reader)