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Dr. Philippe J.S. De Brouwer leads expert teams in the service centre of HSBC in Krakow, is Honorary Consul for Belgium in Krakow, and is also guest professor at the University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University, and AGH University of Science and Technology. He teaches both at executive MBA programs and mathematics faculties.

He studied theoretical physics, and later acquired his second Master degree while working. Finishing thisMaster, he solved the “fallacy of large numbers puzzle” that was formulated by P.A. Samuelson 38 years before and remained unsolved since then. In his Ph.D., he successfully challenged the assumptions of the noble price winning “Modern portfolio Theory” of H. Markovitz, by creating “Maslowian Portfolio Theory.”

His career brought him into insurance, banking, investment management, and back to banking, while his specialization shifted from IT, data science to people management.

For Fortis (now BNP), he created one of the first capital guaranteed funds and got promoted to director in 2000. In 2002, he joined KBC, where he merged four companies into one and subsequently became CEO of the merged entity in 2005. Under his direction, the company climbed from number 11 to number 5 on the market, while the number of competitors increased by 50%. In the aftermath of the 2008 crisis, he helped creating a new assetmanager for KBC in Ireland that soon accommodated the management of ca. 1000 investment funds and had about =C120 billion under management. In 2012, he widened his scope by joining the risk management of the bank and specialized in statistics and numerical methods. Later, Philippe worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in London and specialized in Big Data, analytics and people management. In 2016, he joined HSBC and is passionate about building up a Centre of Excellence in risk management in the service centre in Krakow. One of his teams, the independent model review team, validates the most important models used in the banking group worldwide.

Married and father of two, he invests his private time in the future of the education by volunteering as board member of the International School of Krakow. Thisway, he contributes modestly to the cosmopolitan ambitions of Krakow. He gives back to society by assuming the responsibility of Honorary Consul for Belgium in Krakow, and mainly helps travellers in need.

In his free time, he teaches at the mathematics departments of AGH University of Science and Technology and Jagiellonian University in Krakow and at the executive MBA programs the Krakow Business School of the University of Economics in Krakow and the Warsaw University. He teaches subjects like finance, behavioural economics, decision making, Big Data, bank management, structured finance, corporate banking, financial markets, financial instruments, team-building, and leadership. What stands out is his data and analytics course: with this course he manages to provide similar content with passion for undergraduatemathematics students and experienced professionals of anMBAprogram. This variety of experience and teaching experience in both business and mathematics is what lays the foundations of this book: the passion to bridge the gap between theory and practice.