Jean-Yves Gnabo

Full Professor of Finance at the University of Namur and Director of the Center for Research in Finance and Management (CeReFiM), Jean-Yves Gnabo specializes in international finance, financial econometrics, and risk transmission. He is affiliated with the School of Evenings Studies in Economics and Management and contributes to research groups like Development Finance and Public Policies (DeFiPP) and the Namur Institute for Complex Systems (naXys).

• PhD in Economics and Business Administration, University of Namur (2008)
• Master in Finance/Magistère in Economics, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2003)
• BSc in Econometrics, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2002)

His research spans Central Banking (monetary policy, exchange rates), Financial Complexity (networks, bootstrapping techniques), Econometrics (non-linear models, time-series), and Sustainable Finance (ESG, climate risk). Recent work explores crypto-assets, climate litigation, and sovereign wealth fund dynamics.

Key trends in his publications include risk transmission mechanisms, network science applications in finance, and sustainable finance innovations. He has supervised numerous PhD candidates and leads projects such as I(CE)²IB on climate change impacts on macro-finance.

Active in academic governance, Gnabo directs CeReFiM and serves on the Doctoral Commission for Human and Social Sciences. His lab affiliations include naXys and DeFiPP, integrating interdisciplinary approaches into financial research.