ke French socialism in Provence. Intellectually, he was as French as he was English, participating in the evenements of 1968 and spending a year at the Ecole Normale Superieure, where he befriended Marxist luminaries like the historians Annie Kriegel and Boris Souvarine. Whatever Judt's initial ideological commitments, he

. He was also responsible for setting up the trading platform at Lyxor for the quant asset management department. Francois-Charles is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure and ESSEC. He has an « Agregation » in Economics, a Master's degree in Applied Mathematics and a Master's degree in Finance from Paris IX Dauphine.