Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

Jean-Philippe Bouchaud is the chairman of Capital Fund Management (CFM) and a professor at École Normale Supérieure (ENS), both in France. With Jean-Pierre Aguilar, he cofounded CFM’s research arm, Science and Finance, in 1994 and maintains strong links with the academic world. Prior to CFM, he was a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) until 1992. He then spent a year at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in the UK before joining the Condensed Matter Physics Service at the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the ENS.