Maïa Ferrand

Maïa Ferrand has been co-head of external multi-management at Candriam since 2007.

Maïa was first hired by Crédit Commercial de France in 1986 as a market maker in currency options. In 1990 she joined Crédit Agricole as market maker, moved to New York and became there global head of currency options two years later. She was hired  in 1995 by Lehman Brothers  in London as Managing Director, following the European shift of currency options. She then moved to Crédit Lyonnais Americas in 1997 as the Global Head of the activity where she set up a worldwide currency option desk.  Maïa joined  Candriam in 2001 and took her current role as Head of External Multimanagement in 2007.

Maïa holds a master in econometrics from the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas and a degree in European fine arts from Christie’s Education in the UK.