Ali El Hamidi is an accomplished finance professional with extensive experience at Crédit Agricole CIB, where responsibilities include serving as Deputy Head of Capital Markets Funding in the Global Markets Division and sponsoring the quantum initiative focused on Deep Tech for Finance. Previous roles at the company encompass positions as Global Head of Models and Portfolio Risks, Head of Portfolio Models, Deputy Head of Quantitative Portfolio Modeling, and Quantitative Analyst. Ali also contributed to academia as a Lecturer in Credit Risk Management at Ecole des Mines de Paris and worked as a Financial Analyst at Accenture and an R&D Engineer at France Telecom. Educational credentials include dual MBAs from Columbia Business School and London Business School, along with a Master of Research in Signal Processing from Paris-Sud University and an engineering degree from CentraleSupélec.