Sebastien Betermier, Associate Professor of Finance, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University

Sebastien Betermier is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. His research seeks to understand the relationships between risk and return and how these drive investors in their investment decisions and contribute to the development of sustainable pension systems. His work appears in top finance journals and has received several distinctions, including lead article in the Journal of Finance in 2017.

Professor Betermier teaches Investment Management and Pension Funds and Retirement Systems at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has been recognized repeatedly through nominations for teaching excellence which includes receiving the Desautels Distinguished Teaching Award in 2016 and 2020 and coaching the winning team of the PRMIA international risk management challenge in 2016, 2017, and 2019. In 2017, Professor Betermier founded the McGill International Portfolio Challenge, a global university competition that aims to find sustainable financial solutions to complex social problems such as underfunded pensions and climate change. He was named one of the World's Best 40 under 40 Business School Professors by Poets and Quants in 2017.

Professor Betermier holds a PhD in Finance from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He also serves as Coordinator of the Finance Area at Desautels and Academic Advisor at the Bank of Canada. He was born in France and grew up in Paris and San Francisco.