Professor Fredj Jawadi has a PhD and a HDR (Habilitation to Supervise Research) in Economics. He is a Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Lille since September 2018. He is also an Associate Researcher at EconomiX, and a Deputy Director for CAC in France. In addition, Professor Jawadi is a Research Fellow at the Economic Research Forum (ERF), a Fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement since 2018, a Charter Fellow at the Institute for Nonlinear Dynamical Inference (INDI) in Russia since 2015. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Emory University, University of Chicago, University of Kansas, University of Liverpool, University of Ljubljana, University of Greenwich, University of Shanghai, and University of Gent since 2009. He is a financial economist and econometrician with a special interest in financial markets and applied macroeconomics in the developed, emerging and developing countries. He has worked for Natixis as a consultant in charge of developing financial indicators. He has also worked at the Leader of Consortium CHARE (ADE, Particip, ECDPM, GIZ, MDF and PEM consult) and the European Commission, for the “Methodological and Knowledge Sharing support” Programme as an expert in charge of i) explaining “the Macroeconomic Risk for developing countries” and ii) analyzing the IMF reports for the National Delegations. He has also served as an expert for the French National Research Agency (ANR) and for several international Universities. He has published many papers and books on applied finance, econometrics and macroeconomics. He has won different Prizes and Grants.