Dr. David Roubaud joined the Montpellier Business School in April 2011. He is a graduate from the HEC School of Management and Sciences Po in Paris. Before completing a PhD in economics and finance (2011) he also worked as a consultant in strategy in Russia, and prior to that was an associate within the mergers and acquisitions department at Merrill Lynch in New York and London. In September 2013 he was appointed the Dean of Academic Affairs of MBS, and from early 2017 to the end of 2020, Deputy Director General. Dr Roubaud has published articles in international peer-reviewed journals, such as The Energy Journal, Ecological Economics, International Journal of Production Economics, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, International Journal of Production Research, Applied Economics, Annals of Operations Research, The World Economy, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, International Journal of Logistics Management, Economic Modelling, Resources Policy, Computational Economics, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Finance Research Letters, International Review of Financial Analysis, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting​, Economics Bulletin, International Journal of the Economics and Business, and Economics Letters. Key fields of application of his research are the real option theory in corporate finance, cryptocurrencies, energy economics, and sustainable supply chains.