Christian HADDAD

Christian Haddad obtained his PhD in Corporate Finance in 2017 from the University of Lille and SKEMA Business School. His research interests centre around topics related to Corporate Finance, Banking and Entrepreneurship with a methodological focus on quantitative approaches. He has taken part in many conferences in France and internationally (AFFI, EFMA, FEBS, ALE), and his research papers have been published in leading ranked journals such as Small Business Economics, Public Performance & Management Review, and International Review of Applied Economics.

 he began his career as a research-active Faculty member in 2013 when he joined the LSMRC research centre of the University of Lille as a contractual PhD student in charge of Higher Education. Over a period of several years he gained extensive experience in both research and teaching, and he taught Finance and Accounting courses in both French and English. During his thesis, he worked at the University of Trier in Germany as a visiting PhD student, spending 6 months co-authoring a research paper on FinTech Emergencies, which was submitted to the German Ministry of Finance. After defending his thesis in 2017, he then spent 2 years at EDHEC Business School as a Full-time Researcher. He joins Excelia Business School as an Assistant Professor in Finance.