Alessandro Giraudo
Professor of International Finance and Commodity Geopolitics in a Grande Ecole in Paris
Member of the Italian Association of Energy Economists
In other words, this list is an overview of the subjects I follow for personal interest and that I teach to students of the Master and post graduate courses, for which I have written numerous notes.
The fact that I regularly participate to the meetings of the Cyclope Club allows me to be informed about the evolution of the markets and problems and, above all, to cultivate intense contacts with experts working in these markets (traders, brokers, shipowners, producers, consumers, bankers and insurers specialized in international trade, market analysts). I have numerous contacts with economists of various central banks.
He studied at the Scuola d’Ammnistrazione Industriale (Sammi – Turin University) and he holds the BBA and the MBA in Management Sciences (note of the final thesis: 110/110, summa cum laude and special mention of the Jury– winner of the national CIRIEC price for the best dissertation in Finance in Italy– academic year 1973). He followed some post-graduate studies at Genoa University (Int’l Finance and Economic History), at Berkeley (Int’ Economics and Economic History with Prof. CM Cipolla) and he attended the Salzburg Seminars-Harvard (Int’l Economics and Multinational Corporate Enterprises).
He worked for Fiat Co. (Int’l Development Dept. and for the same company he worked at the Hudson Institute in New York with Hermann Kahn). As a Grain Trader and Investment Manager he worked for Cargill in Milan, Geneva, Paris and Amsterdam and for UBS (Zurich-Edelmetall Abteilung and Chief Trader in Paris).
Deeply interested by the commodity world, he became the senior economist for NLMP (Commodity broker at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris) and he spent more than 20 years with Tradition in Paris, where he was the Group World Chief Economist.
After the early experience as a tutor at the Sammi (he taught Economics in Italian), he is teaching at Institut Supérieur de Gestion – Paris (Markets Finance, Int’l Economics, Economic History of Finance, Top Economic Challenges in French and English), at the Business School of Paris (Corporate Int’l Development – in French and English), at Sciences Po-IEP – Paris (Commodity Markets – seminars in English), at AMISTADES-Rome (lectures in Italian on commodities), at LSE – London (post-graduate conferences of commodities subjects in English), at INSEEC – Paris (Commodities: risks and hedging in French and English).
Here the titles of his latest books he wrote:
He is a member of the Société d’Économie Politique de Paris and of the Club Cyclope-Paris (group specialized in commodity research).