{"id":2,"date":"2007-03-03T11:14:30","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T10:14:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-04-20T11:36:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T09:36:10","slug":"a-propos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/a-propos\/","title":{"rendered":"Who am I?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Jean Maurice Jorion<\/b><\/p>\n

Born on July 22d 1946 at Ixelles (Brussels), of Belgian nationality<\/p>\n

Paul Jorion<\/a>\u00a0is, since March 1, 2016, Associate Professor of the Faculties of the Catholic University of Lille<\/i>. He is President of pribor<\/a>, an artificial intelligence start-up developing SAM (Self-Aware Machine<\/em>). He is also a columnist for the literary magazine Quinzaines<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Paul Jorion was once a member of the High Committee for the Future of the Belgian Financial Sector<\/i> and of the Reflection Group on the Positive Economy<\/i> led by Jacques Attali. He was the first holder of the “Stewardship of Finance” special chair at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2012\/15).<\/p>\n

Jorion graduated in sociology and social anthropology (PhD in Social Sciences from the Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles<\/i>): he was the student in Paris of Claude L\u00e9vi-Strauss (Coll\u00e8ge de France<\/i>) and the mathematician Georges-Th\u00e9odule Guilbaud (\u00c9cole Pratique des Hautes \u00c9tudes<\/i>) and in Cambridge of Meyer Fortes and Sir Edmund Leach, both students of Bronislaw Malinowski, the founding father of British social anthropology. He also trained as a psychoanalyst with the Jesuit psychoanalyst and philosopher Philippe Julien.<\/p>\n

Jorion taught social anthropology at the universities of Brussels (1977\/79), Cambridge (1979\/84) where he wrote his doctoral dissertation about his fieldwork as a sea fisherman, at the University of California at Irvine where he was Regents Lecturer (1997), also at the Universit\u00e9 Catholique\u00a0de Lille<\/i> (2019-current). At Paris VIII University (1985\/86) he taught psychoanalysis. He solved during his time in Cambridge, in collaboration with Sir Edmund Leach and two mathematicians (Elaine Lally and Gis\u00e8le De Meur), two enigmas in kinship algebra: the cases of the Pende of Kasai (DRC) and of the Australian Murngin. He was a member of the Human Complex Systems<\/em> research unit at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) from 2004 to 2009.<\/p>\n

Jorion was also a United Nations (FAO) officer involved in development projects in Africa (1984\/87). He was a researcher and developer (Academic Fellow) in Artificial Intelligence as a member of the British Telecom Connex project<\/i> (1987\/90), during which he developed the ANELLA piece of software (Associative Network with Emergent Logical and Learning Abilities<\/i>) whose original feature resided in a memory model acted by an emotional dynamics operating on a universe of lexicon words, having adopted an approach inspired by his psychoanalytical training.<\/p>\n

Jorion worked (1998\/2007) as a pricing specialist, at Freud Lemos and at American Management Systems in London, and in California at top lenders IndyMac, Wells Fargo (San Francisco headquarters), Westlake Financial, finally as a risk manager at Countrywide where he forecast the brewing subprime crisis<\/em> as far back as 2005. He had previously traded futures in a French bank (1990\/91). He has published a book in English on the impact of the Enron bankruptcy on the stock markets:\u00a0Investing in a Post-Enron World<\/i>\u00a0(McGraw-Hill 2003). He played a pioneering role in the development of high frequency trading (at the Bank of the European Union<\/i> in Paris, then at Frontier & Cos<\/i> with Ed Bosarge in Houston, Texas), as well as the development of the e-MITS software, a fully automated home loan allocation system for IndyMac<\/i> in Pasadena (1998\/2002).<\/p>\n

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