Personal life
Jérôme Kerviel grew up in Pont-l’Abbé, Brittany. His mother is a hairdresser and his father was a vocational school metal shop teacher.
Education
He graduated in 2000 from University Lumière Lyon 2 with a Master’s degree in Financial Operations Management. The university’s financial program, which was initiated in the 1990s with the support of France’s larger banks, was intended to prepare students for middle and back-office positions in the trading departments of financial institutions. Prior to that he received a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Nantes.
During an interview, one of his former lecturers at Lyon, Gisèle Reynaud, stated that “He was a student just like the others, a young man, and he didn’t distinguish himself from the others.”
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