Jean Dessain Email & Phone Number

Louvain-La-Neuve, Wbr, Be

Specialized in ALM, Quantitative Finance, Capital Markets and AI for Finance. Jean is regularly involved in missions related to interest rates risk, credit risk, liquidity risk management, and ALM. The missions are performed for European financial institutions (including Systemic Banks under the supervision of the ECB). He also advises on Machine Learning projects and has delivered trainings to Financial Institutions and European regulators about the proposed European Regulation on AI Act 2021/0106) and its expected impacts for the financial sector. He regularly speaks at conferences about AI for finance.

Louvain-La-Neuve, Brabant Wallon, Be

Lecturing "Management of Banks and Financial Institutions" to master studentsDeveloping a focus on the risk management of financial institutions and the roles AI plays and will plays in Finance.

Lille - Paris, Fr

Specialized in Risk management and ALM for financial institutions and in Machine Learning, lecturing "Banking, Insurance & Regulation", "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning", "Python for Finance", etc. Publication of several research articles on AI and explainable AI for finance in academic journals.

Board member and member of the investment committee of Lean FUND, a privately held seed and early stage investment fund managed by experienced entrepreneurs.

Rixensart, Waals Brabant, Be

- Non-executive director of OneLIFE, an innovative pioneer in the enzymatic cleaning for hospital and healthcare, offering a definitive solution to the issues linked the biofilm.- Member of the Steering Committee in charge of strategy, financial development, operational and commercial management (2016-2017)

Bruxelles, Région De Bruxelles-Capitale, Be

Non-executive director of Treedy's, an information & services company specialized in the AI-powered 3D scan for the fashion industry.

Brussels, Brussels, Be

Navagne Management BVBA is an independent strategic and financial advisory services company specialized in three core businesses :1. Providing advices to corporate clients for financial and/or strategic management, and the operational support for the execution of related transactions;2. Delivering investment strategy & risk management advices to institutional investors;3. Assisting clients with AI implementation and developing AI tools for finance.

Belgian Money Corp is a licensed and regulated Belgian Financial Intermediate. Belgian Money Corp business activity consists of two areas: - wholesale foreign exchange services, and - financial clearinghouse services.As a foreign exchange wholesaler, BMC offers to licensed and regulated companies access to competitive foreign exchange rates to soft currencies through its extensive network partners, who are themselves authorized by the local authorities to conduct payments and foreign exchange deals in their jurisdiction.As a clearinghouse operator, Belgian Money Corp offers to licensed and regulated entities settlement services in different countries in a fast and effective way.

Brussels, Brussels Region, Be

Direct report of the CFO, member of the Finance Management Team and of the Asset and Liability Management Committee). Board member of group’s financing companies. Heading the Capital & Funding department (20 persons), including:• Being responsible for the strategic definition, coordination and implementation of all regulatory capital-related activities for the group. I led the issuance of numerous debt and equity transactions supporting Fortis Bank’s solvency, with amongst others a € 24 bn capital raising program to finance the acquisition of ABN Amro through a set of innovative transactions, some of which internationally awarded;• Managing capital markets aspects of M&A operations, with amongst others the Initial Public Offering of Assurant Inc on NYSE (market cap of $ 4.0 bn) and subsequent final disposal of Assurant Inc through a tax optimised convertible bond issuance;• In charge of the relationship with rating agencies and debt investors.

Amsterdam, Nl

Melville, New York, Us

Master, Economics

Master, Law