Jérémie Bertrand is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Freedom and Prosperity Center and an associate professor of finance and associate academic director of the grande école program in charge of the master’s program at IÉSEG School of Management in Lille, France. His research focuses on the benefits of developing a relationship between a bank and its customers (relationship lending), the consequences of trust in banks, discrimination in the credit market, and the impact of individual psychology on financial decisions. In recent years, he has published in international journals such as Economic Inquiry, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Journal of Financial Services Research, and the International Review of Law and Economics. He teaches courses such as Econometrics, Scientific Reasoning, and Understanding the Impact of Neurodiversity or Business Games. He also works closely with the education executive on training professionals in risk management and financial decision making.

Bertrand holds a Master of Engineering from ISA Lille and a Master of Finance from Lille University. Bertrand also has a PhD in finance from Lille University in the field of banking and got his Habilitation to Conduct Research from Strasbourg University.