On 19 January 2026, the ILB paid tribute to the work of Jean-Michel BEACCO, who died accidentally on 5 September 2025, and who was Director General of the ILB from 2009 to 2025. Jean-Michel Beacco led credit activities in the capital markets at Société Générale, Crédit Agricole and Natixis (2005-2009). Jean-Michel BEACCO was also Deputy Director General of the Europlace Institute of Finance (EIF), Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Fondation du Risque and Associate Professor at the University of Paris. Jean-Michel Beacco ”contributed to building and transmitting a demanding vision of research, a spirit of disciplinary openness and a rare ability to bring together mathematics, finance, economics, artificial intelligence and societal issues within the Institut Louis Bachelier and beyond “.
The ILB was created in 2008 by the Treasury Department, the Caisse des Dépôts, as well as the IEF and FdR foundations, which are recognised as being of public utility. The ILB, described as a “network of networks”, has the mission of structuring research (with more than 90 partners, 60 “reference chairs” and 500 recognised teacher-researchers) on financial issues, mainly market issues. The ILB is organised into three divisions: administrative for the management of projects and partnerships; Communication & Engagement to promote research and lead the network; ILB Labs to support the analysis and modelling of major economic and societal issues. The ILB organises monthly events, which make it possible to explore the major contemporary issues relating in particular to artificial intelligence, climate risk, demographic dynamics, transformations in the world of work, etc., with three highlights: the ILB Risks Forum, the annual meeting of academic excellence in risk finance; the Green Finance Research Advances (GFRA), an academic reference in sustainable finance; and the Conversations crossing economy, society and research at the Collège de France.
The ceremony was hosted by André Levy-Lang (President of the ILB). Moving tributes were paid by Pierre-Louis Lions (Collège de France), Marie Brière (new DG of the ILB), Jean-Michel Lasry (Finance and Development Chair), Mourad Kolli ( ILB), Nicole El Karoui (Professor Emeritus at Sorbonne University and Financial Risks Chair), Louis Bertucci (Louis Bachelier Institute and FaIR programme), Bertrand Badré (Blue Like an Orange Sustainable Capital and Fondation PARC), Charles-Albert Lehalle (École Polytechnique), Nizar Touzi (New York University), Stéphane Mallat (Collège de France), Philippe Aghion (Nobel Prize), Christine Balagué (Institut Mines-Télécom Business School and Good in Tech Chair).
The club Turgot was represented by J-J. Pluchart. A tribute to Louis Bachelier was recently paid on clubturgot.com.
Jean-Jacques Pluchart
