[1] Educated in France and in the United States, he is a graduate of Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and holds a master's degree (diplôme d’études approfondies) in economics.
He was a member of the Executive Board of Amnesty International France [archive] and became involved in different campaigns related to the impact of business on human rights.
[5] During his mandate, he intervened on many occasions in parliamentary hearings in Brussels (European Parliament), Paris, Berlin and London, on European financial regulations issues, on national regulations dealing with banking structure, on the financial crisis and on the Libor and Euribor[6] scandals and high frequency trading.
In April 2013, he received the Theodor Heuss medal[7] in Stuttgart on behalf of Finance Watch in recognition of the work done for the public interest.
In April 2021, the policy proposals made in his report Breaking the climate-finance doom loop were recognised by an international panel of 50 banks, NGOs, academics, regulators and investors as the most impactful and feasible to tackle the link between climate change and financial instability.