Gael Leboeuf

Born in 1981 - Belgian Citizenship

Civil union, 2 children.

Personal e-mail: gael at leboeuf dot eu

Professional e-mail: gael.leboeuf at univ-amu dot fr

Associate Professor of Finance (with H.D.R.) at Aix-Marseille University. Faculté d’Economie et de Gestion – CERGAM research lab.

Office Address : MEGA (Maison de l'Economie et de la Gestion d'Aix-en-Provence), 424 Chem. du Viaduc, 13080 Aix-en-Provence

• Ben Slimane, F., Chaney, D., Leboeuf, G., & Trabesli, D. (2022). Le role du discours des porteurs de projets dans la reussite des campagnes de crowdlending. Innovation, 2022/3(69), 43-69.

• Andrieu, G., Le Pendeven, B., & Leboeuf, G. (2021). Equity Crowdfunding Success for Female Entrepreneurs: French Evidence. Economics Bulletin, 41(2).

• Cumming, D. J., Leboeuf, G., & Schwienbacher, A. (2020). Crowdfunding models: Keep‐it‐all vs. all‐or‐nothing. Financial Management, 49(2), 331-360.

• Bollaert, H., Leboeuf, G., & Schwienbacher, A. (2020). The narcissism of crowdfunding entrepreneurs. Small Business Economics, 55(1), 57-76.

• Cumming, D. J., Leboeuf, G., & Schwienbacher, A. (2017). Crowdfunding cleantech. Energy Economics, 65, 292-303.

All my publications are available for download here

• Leboeuf, G., & Schwienbacher, A. (2018). Crowdfunding as a new financing tool. In The economics of crowdfunding (pp. 11-28). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

• Vitanova I., Villanova L., Dolce V. & Leboeuf G. (2025) Entrepreneurial founding teams’ gender composition and early stage fundraising

• Lagrid A., Fournier S., Aldebert B., Ghods A., Bertrant D. & Leboeuf G. (2024) LegitimNarrate: The first Dataset for Assessing New Venture Legitimacy through Narrative Analysis

• Le Pendeven B., Morel C., Leboeuf G. (2024) Does the digitalization of entrepreneurial finance democratize entrepreneurship?

• Ben Slimane F. & Leboeuf G. (2025) The determination of credit risk on crowdlending sector.

• Leboeuf G. (2017) Does The Crowd Forgive? Awarded Best single-authored Ph.D. workshop paper – 33rd International Conference of the French Finance Association – HEC/ULG – Liège/Belgium

• Corporate Finance & Entrepreneurial Finance at Master and Bachelor levels

• Portfolio Management at Master level

• Financial Markets at Bachelor level

• Ethical Finance at Master Level

• since 2026 : Deputy Director, CERGAM research center (Univ.Aix-Marseille)

• since 2025 : Co-Director, Master's Program in Finance (Univ.Aix-Marseille/Aix-Marseille School of Economics)

• since 2024 : Board member, Faculty of Economics and Management (Univ.Aix-Marseille)

• since 2021 : Academic Director, First-Year Master's Program in Finance (Univ.Aix-Marseille)

• 2024-2025 : Board member, CERGAM research center (Univ.Aix-Marseille)

• 2021-2024 : Co-Director, E2I research track (Univ.Aix-Marseille/CERGAM)

• 2019-2021 : Academic director, Third year of bachelor's program in economics and management (Univ.Lyon2)

• 2018-2021 : Board member, Faculty of Economics and Management (Univ.Lyon2)

• 2018-2021 : Academic Director, Professional bachelor's program in banking (Univ.Lyon2)

• 2017-2021: Associate Professor of Finance – Université Lumière Lyon2

• 2015-2017: Teaching assistant & database manager – SKEMA B.S.

• 2012-2013: Equity Researcher – CFA Investment Research Challenge – French Finalist

• 2008-2011: Private Account Manager – Caisse d'Epargne – Evron/France

• 2007: Private Wealth Manager – Gan Patrimoine – Vitré/France

• 2004-2007: Professional Account Manager Assistant – Fortis Bank – Liège/Belgium

• Held various temporary positions - There are no menial jobs : summer camp counselor, cashier, farmhand, call center agent, toy store sales assistant, door-to-door salesperson,…

• 2025: Habilitation to Supervise Research in Management Science – I.A.E. Aix-Marseille Université / France

• 2013-2016: Doctoral Thesis in Management Science/PhD in Corporate Finance – Université de Lille & SKEMA B.S./ France

• 2012-2013: Master 2nd year – Finance/International Financial Analysis (First in class) – Université de Lille/France

• June 2012: CFA Program – passed Level 1

• 2011-2012: Master 1st year – Finance & Banking (Second in class) – Université de Lille/France

• 2001-2004: Professional Bachelor in Pedagogy – Elementary School Teacher – HECh. Les Rivageois Liège/Belgium

• 1999-2001: 1st year of Civil Engineering Bachelor – University of Liège/Belgium

• 1993-1999: High School Graduate – Mathematics/Foreign Languages – Collège Notre Dame de Tournai/Belgium