Dr. Cossin, Didier

Didier is the UBS Professor in Banking and
Finance at IMD Lausanne, Switzerland and a
leading world authority on credit derivatives. He
is the Program Director for the IMD Strategic
Finance program. He also teaches at the Swiss
Finance Institute. His research focuses on risk,
credit risk, real options & financial structuring
issues. He is a consultant/executive teacher
with the UN, central banks, financial institutions,
corporations, funds, and VC-based start-ups.
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Before joining IMD, Didier worked for Goldman Sachs in London and
pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf in Tokyo. He has taught at Harvard
University and at HEC, University of Lausanne, where he chaired the
university’s Department of Management; was Director of its Institute of
Banking & Financial Management; and was Director of the PhD in
Management. His research at HEC includes risk-based premiums for
financial options, and extensive work on credit risk.

At Harvard, he obtained two Derek Bok Awards for excellence in teaching.

Didier is the author and co-author of two books, including one of the
leading books on credit risk (‘Advanced Credit Risk Analysis’ (Wiley’00),
several book chapters, and many award winning articles.

He is a member of the American Finance Association, the Financial
Management Association, the Eastern Finance Association, and the
European Finance Association.

Didier studied in France at ENS rue d'Ulm, holds master degrees from
Sorbonne University and EHESS. He holds a PhD in Business Economics
from Harvard (Robert C. Merton Chair) and was a visiting scholar (Fulbright
Fellow) at the Department of Economics at MIT.