Christophe Nijdam is a banking specialist and Secretary General of Finance Watch, an independent European non-profit association set up in 2011 to act as a public interest counterweight to the powerful financial lobby.<\/p>\n
After graduating from Sciences Po Paris, he spent more than a dozen years as a senior executive at a number of large French banks in France and in the USA. He began his career in 1979 at Credit Lyonnais (now Cr\u00e9dit Agricole) New York as a financial analyst and corporate banker. In 1983 he joined the headquarters of the CCF (now HSBC France) as co-head of interest rate and currency derivatives, before returning to the US as a capital markets director. In 1989, he became US General Manager for Cr\u00e9dit du Nord (now Societe Generale Group) in New York.<\/p>\n
In the early 1990s, he crossed to the investor side as a financial analyst: He co-founded the independent equity research firm CAPITALACTION in 1994, where he was managing partner. A lecturer at Sciences-Po Paris from 1998 to 2008, he still teaches in the corporate finance and capital markets Executive Masters programme.<\/p>\n
Immediately prior to deciding to join Finance Watch, Christophe Nijdam was a banking analyst at AlphaValue, a leading independent pan-European equity research firm. He joined Finance Watch in January 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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