Director
Philippe d’Astous holds the Desjardins Research Professorship in Personal Finance and is an associate professor in the Department of Finance at HEC Montréal. He holds a PhD in Risk Management from Georgia State University. His research focuses on individuals’ decision-making regarding their debt, savings, and consumption. He has gained varied experience in empirical work using individual-level microdata, both administrative and survey-based.
- Member of the Development and Quality of Practice Committee – Institut Québécois de la Planification Financière (IQPF)
- Member of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) Research Committee on the Financial Literacy
Co-authors and collaborators:
Andersen, Steffen
Boyer, Martin
Martinez-Correa, Jimmy
Dionne, Georges
Gemmo, Irina
Glenzer, Franca
Michaud, Pierre-Carl
Scholnick, Barry
Shore, Stephen
Research Officer
Jean Mary Samuel, M.Sc.
Maria Cristina Cardenas Barriga, M.Sc.
Students
- Béatrice Paré (M.Sc., supervised project)
- Sylvie Ngo (M.Sc., supervised project)
- Minqi Zhao (M.Sc., supervised project)
- David Boisclair, Executive Director, Retirement and Savings Institute
- Lee Boyle, Operations and Events Officer, Retirement and Savings Institute
- Caroline Aubé (HEC Montréal)
- David Boisclair (HEC Montréal)
- Charles Mercille (Desjardins)
- Stephen Shore (Georgia State University)
The Financial Education Lab is part of the HEC Montréal Retirement and Savings Institute ecosystem
