IPL-SaS leadership

IPL-SaS Leadership

Meet our founder, member of the college of Actuaires Agrégés, founder of the Institut of risk in actuarial sciences to support progress in industrial field and risk hedging

Isabelle Praud-Lion, founder of IPL-SaS, works as risk and data officer & project director.

Nominated as a Fellow Actuary , she has been a member of the college des Actuaires Agrégés since September 2017. Nominated Louis Bachelier Felllow, she is member of the Institut Louis Bachelier College Professional Fellowssince December 2024. In 2021 she certified in coding and data representation. In 2020 she creates the Institute of risk in actuarial sciences (IRSA institut des risques en sciences actuarielles) to support progress in industrial field. Since 1991, she has focused on international financial hedging strategy through the prisms of insurance, reinsurance, financial markets, Decentralised Finance, retail banking, and corporations. To reach her goals as a financial executive, she implements steering tools for governance and executive corporates as illustrated by the following examples.

For Equans, IPL-SaS develops data management projects, as also did at La Réunion Aérienne et Spatiale, supporting R&D project in analytics. For Safran and CFM, IPL-SaS designs innovative services and assists pricing and analytic financial risk management; by adapting actuarial science. For the European Electricity Exchange, she accompanied business transformation, developing analytics as passing person in charge of the Surveillance of EPEXSPOT. She also has been involved in agricultural risk measures and hedging as well as in Insurance risk subscription in aeronautics.

For Michelin and Veolia Environment, she suggested synthetic risk management indicators for the group governance and strategy support. She also designed monitoring tools for business continuity about supply chain vs. value creation.

For Solvay, as deputy treasurer in charge of forex and economic analysis, she set up instruments of systematic measure for country risks and organized the foreign exchange risk management function for the group.

As an expert in risk monitoring, she contributed to the creation of the first retail bank in France (La Banque Postale) and then joined the M&A team in charge of operational projects for the casualty insurance subsidiary.

Earlier, working in financial markets of debts, forex, and stocks, she proposed investment strategies based on risks measurements before occupying executive functions. At Ferri (a leading French broker in debts derivatives) as international proprietary trading deputy, she designed the strategy then opened and developed the arbitrage desk while leading the company in France for convergence in German and French debts. As investment advisor at Wargny’s, she also designed the analysis of credit risk and its links with quant trading models.

As actuary for the Federation of French Insurance Companies FFA, Isabelle suggested leaning the refinancing of the major risks in the United States by means of a meteorological index to help reinsurers cover their risk of liquidity.

She began her career as Official Fellow Professor of mathematics of the French Ministry of National Education.

Involved in development and value creation, she acts sundry fields: for the ENSAE and the Institute of the Actuaries, as a member of the thesis jury, and sits in the administrators working group. In December 2022, the French Society of Statistics appointed her a member of Actuarial Prize Committee. She is also member of the AGIFORS for operational research. Since 2019 commandant of “réserve citoyenne”, she was appointed, in June 2020, as theeditor-in-chief of La lettre de Minerve in connection with military superior technical education for the French Army, where she also trains in statistics and probability. For professional and Paris Nanterre University, she contributes as Fellow Professor in actuarial science, insurance accounting, compliance, ethics and risk practice and supports interns in environments related to change and innovation. A French native, she grew up in a multicultural family (French, German, Spanish, Italian) and has lived in Madrid and Brussels. She is currently based in Paris and speaks French, Spanish and English fluently.

Doctor of mathematics, fellow actuary and engineer in statistics and economy of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (ENSAE), she became the first European actuary awarded by the Casualty Actuarial Society (Charles Hachemeister Prize of 1995 and 1996). She also studied law (international monetary flows), at the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Paris.