François-Serge Lhabitant

François-Serge Lhabitant is the Chief Investment Officer of Kedge Capital and a Professor of Finance at HEC, Lausanne, Switzerland and at the Edhec Business School. He was formerly a Visiting Professor of Finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and at the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

François-Serge Lhabitant obtained a Ph.D. in Finance (1998), a Master of Sciences in Banking and Finance (1994) and Bachelor of Sciences in Economics (1993) at HEC, Lausanne. He also holds a Computer Engineer Degree (1989) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

He is the author of several books and research papers on hedge funds, emerging markets and the modeling of interest rate contingent claims. He is a Member of the Scientific Committee of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers, the French financial markets regulatory body, a Member of the European Advisory Board of the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE) and a Member of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) Investor Steering Committee

He is considered as a specialist in alternative investments, globally known for his work on hedge funds and emerging markets.

Books

*Hedge Funds: Myths and Limits, March 2002 at John Wiley & Sons, London, ISBN 0-470-84477-9, 280 pages.
*Doing Business in Emerging Europe, March 2003 at Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0-333-99301-2 (co-authored with Y. Zoubir), 240 pages.
*Hedge Funds: Quantitative Insights, June 2004, at John Wiley & Sons, London, ISBN 0-470-85667X, 384 pages.
*La gestion alternative, June 2004, at Editions Dunod, Paris, ISBN 2100081586, 302 pages.
*Commodity Trading Advisors: Risk, Performance Analysis, and Selection, September 2004 at John Wiley & Sons, London, ISBN 0-471-68194-6 (co-edited with G. Gregoriou, V. Karavas and F. Rouah).
*Hedge Funds: Mitos y límites. Fondos de inversión especulativos de alto riesgo, May 2006, at Ediciones Gestión 2000, Barcelona, ISBN 8496426963, 407 pages (in Spanish)
*Hedge Funds, May 2006, at Kais System, Seoul, ISBN 8995238275, 282 pages (in Korean)
*The Handbook of Hedge Funds, December 2006, at John Wiley and Sons, London, ISBN 0-470-02663-4, 640 pages
*Stock Market Liquidity: Implications for Market Microstructure and Asset Pricing, January 2008 at John Wiley and Sons, ISBN 978-0470181690 (co-edited with Greg Gregoriou), 528 pages.
*Hedge funds: Origine, stratégies, performances, May 2008, at Editions Dunod, Paris, ISBN 9782100513437, 400 pages (in French)

External links

*http://www.hec.unil.ch/flhabita/
*http://www.lhabitant.net/