Jean-Paul A. LOUISOT

Risk & Insurance Consultant
Professor of Risk Management
Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne
CARM_Institute Academic Director
Jean-Paul LOUISOT is a civil engineer (école Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, 1965), Master in Economics (Lyon 1968), Master in Business Administration (Kellog School of Management, 1972) and Associate in Risk Management (IIA, 1986).
He has spent more than twenty five years of his career to service private and public entities helping them manage their risks and coach their risk managers. His experience includes all sides of the “insurance triangle” as he has worked as a broker, an underwriter and a risk-manager.
Since 1993, his activity is mainly devoted to teaching both post graduate students and risk management professionals, while still acting as a part-time risk manager for a selected group of clients.
He is currently Academic Director for the CARM_institute, limited company (Comprehensive Applied Risk Management Institute) preparing students for the professional designations ARM (Associate Risk Management) and EFARM (European Fellow in Applied Risk Management) in French speaking countries. He also teaches ARM seminars in English for the Insurance Institute of Switzerland.
Beyond professional education, he teaches in several institutions at post graduate levels such as DESS or Masters. More specifically, he lectures at the DESS Gestion des Risques & des Crises – Cindyniques (La Sorbonne) and the DESS for Financial Institutions (Université de Toulouse). He introduces risk management to the Master in Finance (ESM Tours) and in some Engineering Schools (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, ENSI in Bourges and at the ISTG in Grenoble).
Further to translating and adapting the ARM courses in French, Jean-Paul LOUISOT has published a number of articles and studies on risk management in specialized publications and periodicals. He has recently published in 2004 and 2005 several articles on reputation risk and communication risks including
Managing Intangible Asset Risks:Reputation and Strategic,Redeployment Planning
Risk Management: An International Journal 2004, 6 (3), 35–50
And two books on risk management:
”Le diagnostic des risques” – Jean-Paul LOUISOT & Sophie GAULTIER-GAILLARD – AFNOR – Paris Sept 2004.
“100 questions pour comprendre la gestion des risques” – Jean-Paul LOUISOT – AFNOR – Paris Sept 2005.
He is currently working on a book on risk quantitafication to be published by Wiley in the spring of 2006.