Dr. Prabesh Luitel is an Assistant Professor of Finance at IESEG School of Management and a member of CNRS-LEM research center. Holding a PhD from KU Leuven, his research dives deep into critical financial markets areas: bond markets, credit risk, international finance and corporate finance with a particular focus on sovereign and corporate credit ratings. His work has appeared in the Journal of Banking & Finance, the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, and Research in International Business & Finance. At IESEG, he teaches Debt Markets, International Finance, Corporate Finance, and advanced data analytics courses using Python and R.