Christian Walter is an associate member of CEFRA.

He graduated from ESSEC and is a confirmed actuary of the French Institute of Actuaries (IAF), has a PhD and a Habilitation in Management Science, and is an affiliate professor of finance at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (“Sciences Po”). He is specialized in financial markets related issues (mathematical, economic, philosophical and historical) with interplays between history of science, modern financial approaches of asset pricing and ethical perspectives. He has 22 years experience in asset management industry, in various areas covering asset allocation, stock selection, performance measurement and analysis, quantitative products, etc.

He launched in 1998 and is directing the research program “History and epistemology of finance” at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH), Paris, devoted to the investigation of non financial roots of financial theory as applied in the financial industry, and the critical analysis of theoretical foundations of finance. Main articles cover: in-depth analysis of the market efficiency concept, non Gaussian Lévy models for behaviour of stock market prices and asset pricing, history of performance measurement, critical analysis of the fundamental value concept.