Deputy Chief Executive Officer Amundi AM
Member of the Executive Committee of Amundi Group
Chairman of Amundi Institute
Head of Strategic Advisory

Pascal Blanqué has been Chief Investment Officer Group and Head of the Investment management platforms since 2005. He was also Global Head of Institutional Business and Third Party Distributors from 2010 to 2017. Pascal joined the Crédit Agricole group in 2000 as Chief Economist. Prior to joining Crédit Agricole, Pascal was Deputy Director of Economic Research at Paribas (1997-2000) following four years in the strategic asset allocation department of Paribas Asset Management in London (1992-1996). He began his career in institutional and private wealth management at Paribas in 1991.

As an economist and historian, Pascal is the author of several contributions. His research interests and his academic work focus on monetary issues, the functioning of financial markets and the philosophical foundations of economics. He is a member of various Think Tanks such as the Société d’Economie politique and the 300 Club as well as the MSCI Advisory Council and Bretton Woods Committee.

Pascal was awarded European CIO of the Year in 2013, 2018 and 2021 by Funds Europe Magazine and received the Institutional Investor Manager Lifetime Award in 2016. His book 10 weeks into Covid-19 – Psyche, Money, Narratives – An interpretation of the crisis was awarded the Turgot Prize in Financial Economics in 2022.

Pascal studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. He is a graduate of Institut d’Etudes Politiques and holds a PhD in Finance from Paris-Dauphine University.