Frédéric Samama

Mr. Frédéric Samama serves as Deputy Global Head of Institutional Clients at Amundi. Mr. Samama served as Deputy Head of Institutional Clients and Sovereign Entities at Amundi Asset Management since November 2013. He started his career in 1991 at JP Morgan as the Head of Institutional Sales and Research on Convertible Bonds. From 1993 to 1997, he served as the Head of Equity Derivative Sales and Research at CA Cheuvreux. He later moved to CA-CIB, where he was in charge of the Corporate Equity Derivatives department, first in Paris, then in New York as from 2007. He notably developed the first global leveraged Employee Share Purchase Programmes (ESPP) on the international stage. He joined Amundi in New York in 2009 as Head of Investment Solutions for North America. In 2012, he moved to Amundi Paris as Deputy Head of Sovereign Entities. Throughout his career, he has also worked as an Advisor to several government institutions, including the French government and the French securities regulator (AMF), and has taken part in part in the works of the US State Department. He also founded the Sovereign Wealth Fund Research Initiative (SWF RI) in 2009. Mr. Samama is a graduate of the ESC Rouen Business School and of the Stanford Executive Program.