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Principal — ESG, Sustainable Finance & Data Science

Bruno G. Kamdem

PhD

Bruno G. Kamdem is co-founder and Principal at Lepton Actuarial & Consulting, where he leads the ESG and sustainable finance practice. He concurrently serves as Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon (Finance and Risk Engineering), Johns Hopkins University (commodity finance), and previously at George Washington University. His research sits at the intersection of credit risk and climate risk — examining physical, liability, and transition risks while assessing institutional delinquency risks using structural credit risk models. He serves as a committee member of the Society of Quantitative Analysts and previously advised the Office of Research, Evaluation & Statistics at the Social Security Administration.

Education
  • PhD, Operations Research — The George Washington University, School of Engineering and Applied Science
  • MS, Applied Mathematics — University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  • BS, Mathematics (Pi Mu Epsilon) & Economics — University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Affiliations
  • Adjunct Professor, NYU Tandon (Finance & Risk Engineering)
  • Adjunct Faculty, Johns Hopkins University (Commodity Finance)
  • Committee Member, Society of Quantitative Analysts (SQA)
  • Member, CFA Institute
Areas of Expertise
Carbon pricing & tradable permits ESG factor decomposition Climate-credit risk integration Reinforcement learning for trading Structural credit risk modeling Optimal control & stochastic differential games
Publications

Selected peer-reviewed work.

  1. 01
    Asset Returns: Reimagining Generative ESG Indexes and Market Interconnectedness
    Dash, G., Kajiji, N., & Kamdem, B. G.
    Journal of Risk and Financial Management · 2024
  2. 02
    Optimizing Fuel Production in Carbon Trading: A Karush–Kuhn–Tucker Framework for Sustainable Balance
    Kamdem, B. G.
    In A. B. Schmidt (Ed.), Sustainable Investing, World Scientific, pp. 321–333 · 2024
  3. 03
    CDS-Implied Risk of U.S. Delinquency: Implications for the U.S. Debt Ceiling
    Chen, R.-R., Finnerty, J. D., & Kamdem, B. G.
    The Journal of Fixed Income, 31(1): 6–26 · 2021
  4. 04
    Heterogeneities in Energy Technological Learning: Evidence from the U.S. Electricity Industry
    Shittu, E., Kamdem, B. G., & Weigelt, C.
    Energy Policy, 131: 1034–1049 · 2019
  5. 05
    Optimal Commitment Strategies for Distributed Generation Systems Under Regulation and Multiple Uncertainties
    Kamdem, B. G., & Shittu, E.
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 80: 1597–1612 · 2017
Selected Talks

Conference presentations.

  • 2025
    Strategic Equilibrium in Sustainable Transport Corridors
    34th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2025) · Leeds, UK
  • 2025
    Adaptive Pricing and Resource Allocation in Transport Corridors Using Actor–Critic Algorithm
    AAAI 2025 Summer Symposium Series · Dubai, UAE
  • 2023
    Carbon Pricing under Competition and Regulation
    IFORS 2023 · Santiago, Chile
  • 2022
    Tradable Carbon Permits Auctions
    Bloomberg Quant (BBQ) Seminar Series · New York
  • 2022
    Carbon Pricing under Competition and Regulation in the Extraction Industry
    Workshop on Climate Impacts, Fields Institute / University of Toronto · Toronto, Canada