Laurence Lescourret

Education

Ph.D.in Finance - HEC School of Management - 2003 M.Sc. in Economics - EHESS, Paris - 1999 M.A. in Finance - University Paris IX-Dauphine - 1997 B.A. (Major: Corporate Finance) - EDHEC Business School - 1996

Biography

Laurence (Daures) Lescourret is associate professor of Finance and is currently heading the ESSEC
Center of Excellence "Capital Markets and Regulation". Her research lies in the area of microstructure of financial markets. Laurence received the PhD Thesis Award in 2004 from the French Finance Association and the National Foundation for Companies Management Academic Education (FNEGE), the "Joseph de la Vega Prize" in 2013 and the IFSID award for the best paper on Derivatives in 2015. She received several research grants from Euronext Paris (2007) , EIF (2008, 2010) , the French National Research Agency (JCJC,
2011) and INEX (Initiative d''Excellence, 2018). She serves on the Board of Directors of
Dassault Systèmes
and of
LCL
(Le Credit Lyonnais). She sits in the audit committee of Dassault Systèmes (DS) and chairs the compensation and nomination committee of DS. She sits in the risk committee of LCL and chairs the audit committee of LCL. Laurence holds a PhD in Finance from HEC Paris.
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Research Areas

Areas

Microstructure of Financial Markets