Wautier Family Office’s experience encompasses a successful professional career in private equity, M&A, and corporate finance alongside influential contributions to top-tier academic institutions.
Our founder, Jean-Baptiste Wautier’s, blend of real-world financial markets experience paired with a thoughtful, rigorous intellectual approach to the issues and challenges in the fields of macroeconomics and global finance makes him a go-to for differentiated and thought-provoking insights.
He is a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, an executive fellow at Panmure House and also a regularly published writer and columnist. His contributions can be found in Les Echos, Project Syndicate, Fondapol, and World Economic Forum publications.
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