Houdou Basse Mama is a full professor of finance at ESCP Business School (Berlin campus), where he holds the Chair in International Financial Markets. His current teaching portfolio includes international finance, empirical finance, asset/portfolio management, international financial markets, and sustainable finance.

His research agenda takes a forward-looking international financial market perspective to bridge the fields of “international business”, “innovation”, and “sustainability”. Specifically, his main research interest lies at the intersection of financial markets and real economic activity. He has a particular research interest in empirical asset pricing, international finance, as well as innovation economics and climate change. His research has been published in leading international journals, including Research Policy, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Applied Economics, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Business Strategy and the Environment, Review of Managerial Science, Journal of Business Economics, Finance Research Letters.

Apart from his teaching and research activities, Houdou has been serving since 2020 as the Berlin-based Local Academic Director of the School’s Bachelor in Management programme.

Prior to joining ESCP Business School in February 2013, he held a postdoctoral position at the University of Hamburg, where he earned a Master’s in International Business and a Ph.D. in Finance. He also holds an M.A. in Accounting and Finance (Université Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar) as well as an M.A. in Applied Foreign Languages (from the Université Cheikh Anta Diop and AUPELF-UREF Montréal). Jointly to his former position in Hamburg, he had been a visiting lecturer of finance with the State University of Finance and Economics in St. Petersburg (2009–2011) and the Bordeaux Business School (2011–2012).

Houdou also has more than 3.5 years of industry experience with Deutsche Boerse in Frankfurt and Siemens in Dakar (Senegal), where he gained insights into derivatives-based indices and financial controlling, respectively.