Issouf Soumaré is Full Professor of Finance and the Director of International Relations of the Faculty of Business Administration at Université Laval in Canada. He is also the Managing Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering of Université Laval. He is the University’s academic advisor for the MSc and MBA programs in finance and real estate. In 2011-2012, he was the Director of the PhD and MSc research programs of the Business School. His research and teaching interests include international finance, risk management, financial engineering and numerical methods in finance. His theoretical and applied financial economic works have been published in leading international economics and finance journals. He holds a PhD in Business Administration in Finance from the University of British Columbia (UBC, Canada), MSc in Financial Engineering from Université Laval (Canada), MSc in Statistics and Quantitative Economics (Ingénieur Statisticien Économiste) from ENSEA and MSc & BSc in Applied Mathematics from the National University of Côte d’Ivoire.