Ayi Ayayi

Ayi Ayayi, PhD

Professeur agrégé de finance,
Directeur du département de Finance et économique
Fondateur du laboratoire de recherche et intervention sur le développement de l’entreprise dans les pays en développement (Larideped.org)

Département Finance et Économique, École de Gestion – Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada

PRINCIPAUX DOMAINES DE RECHERCHE ET D’INTERVENTION

• Microfinance/Microcredit
• Entrepreneurial Finance
• Venture Capital/Private Equity
• Initial Public Offerings(IPO)

ÉTUDES UNIVERSITAIRES

• Ph.D. Financial Economics (H.E.C., Montreal)
• M.A in Economics (Université de Sherbrooke)
• Licence es Sciences Économiques (Université du Benin, Lomé, Togo)

EXPÉRIENCES DE TRAVAIL

2014 Canada representative and board member for New South Wales Research Center Australia (NSWRCA)

2014 (Mai – Juillet) Senior Visiting Research Scholar University of Cape Coast, Ghana

2012 National Research Foundation (NRF), South, Africa

• Reviewer for rating applicants for Monitoring & Eva

2009- current Université du Québec à Trois Rivières

• Associate Professor of Financial Economics (January 2009-current)
• Associate Director DESS in Finance (April 2013-curent)
• Associate Director of the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) program (April 2011-current)
• Point man for the delocalisation of the DBA program at CESAG, Senegal (Jan 2012-current)
• Member of the finance area recruitment committee (April 2012-current)
• Chair of the bilateral program between the department des Sciences de la Gestion and l’Université Paul Verlaine-Metz en France
• Member of the debate committee on the reform of the department des Sciences de la Gestion (Apri-May 2010)

2006-2008 AUDENCIA School of Management, Nantes, France

• Associate Professor of Financial Economics
• Holder of the Microfinance Chair of the Groupe Banque Populaire
• Director of the Globalization and Innovation Center
• Member of the scientific committee

2008; 2010 University of Stenllenbosch Business School, Cape Town, South Africa

• Visiting Scholar in Master of Development Finance (Jan-Feb 2008)
• Visiting Scholar in Master of Development Finance (March 2010)

2008 African Economic Research consortium (AERC), Nairobi, Kenya

• Research examiner (2008-current)
• Visiting scholar (Aug-Oct 2008)

2010-current Africa Growth Institute Cape Town University, Cape Town, South Africa

• Senior research fellow and visiting scholar

2001-2006: Ryerson University, Toronto Canada

• Assistant Professor of Financial Economics

2000-2001: Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

• Limited term Assistant professor of Financial Economics

1993-2000: HEC, Montreal, Canada

• Instructor in Applied Economics

1996-1997: Université de Sherbrooke :Instructor in Economics of Firm