Biography

Roland Gillet completed his doctorate in economics at the Catholic University of Louvain under the supervision of Alexis Jacquemin (Francqui Prize in 1983) and Franco Modigliani (Nobel Prize in Economics in 1985). He finished major (first) in the French national competition for the aggregation of university higher education in management sciences (1999). He is currently a professor of finance at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he directs the professional master's degree "Financial management and taxation", and is a full professor at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management of the Free University of Brussels.

He is also, or has been, professor and/or visiting/visiting researcher at various universities around the world: notably in Canada (Sherbrooke); in China (Fudan, Shanghai); and in the United States, at Harvard and M.I.T.

He is the author of several books and numerous articles published in leading scientific journals. Recently, he was called upon by Robert Shiller (Nobel Prize in Economics in 2013) to write the prefaces for two of his most recognized books on financial crises and the irrational exuberance of markets.

Alongside his academic activities, Roland Gillet is, or has been, an expert in various think tanks at the international level, particularly on the crisis in the euro zone (particularly in Greece and Spain) as well as a scientific advisor to various authorities. public and private. He was more recently appointed economic and financial adviser to Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, who became President of the European Council in December 2019.