Speaker profile: Gilles Chelma

Gilles is a Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School, Co-director of Imperial's Centre for Financial Technology and a visiting scholar at Harvard University (Spring 2026). He currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Empirical Finance. He has also worked in corporate finance at BNP Paribas, as an independent consultant for a variety of corporate, financial, and governmental institutions and professional and international organisations, and has served on a wide range of boards.

Gilles' research interests include digital assets, platform finance, data science and causal inference, entrepreneurial finance, private equity and venture capital, corporate finance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate risk management, energy markets, healthcare management, security design and securitization, debt markets, asset allocation, pension funds, financial regulation and policymaking.