Florian Pelgrin, PhD is a professor at the faculty of Data sciences, Economics, and Finance. He worked at the OECD, at the Bank of Canada and the University of Lausanne - HEC and is a consultant at the Banque de France (Structural Bayesian VAR models and forecasting). He has obtained his PhD in 2005 at the University of Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne. He conducts research in in health economics (life-value of life and impact of insurance plans), life cycle models (consumption, portfolio selection, spending, etc.) , monetary policy (inflation dynamics), and macroeconometrics (structural VAR models, machine learning applications, etc.). It has resulted in international publications (Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Reviews, Statistics and Probability Letters, Economic Letters, Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, European Economic Review), as well as reports (Banque de France, OECD, Louis Bachelier Institute).