About  /  Founder & Vision

Alexandre Kateb

Economist & Quantitative Analyst · CFA · Founder of Multipolarity AI

Two decades at the crossover of quantitative finance, economics and geopolitics — from central banking and capital markets to advising hedge funds, governments and global institutions — led to a single conviction: that foresight could be engineered. Multipolarity AI is the result: AI and deep human expertise combined to turn economic and geopolitical complexity into signal decision-makers can act on.

Alexandre Kateb
Alexandre Kateb · Founder
02 — The throughline

A logical evolution — from foreseeing multipolarity to engineering foresight.

The platform did not appear from nowhere. More than a decade ago, Alexandre Kateb was among the first to frame multipolarity as the coming world order — the thesis the G7, and Washington in particular, once dismissed and now adopt. It is that same foresight, distilled from a career advising institutions that could not afford to be wrong, now engineered into a system.

Central banking

Banque de France

Banking Supervisor and Financial Economist — at the heart of financial stability and supervision.

Markets

EXANE BNP Paribas · Tell Group

Senior Economist, then Chief Economist and Group Head of Research — turning macro and geopolitics into cross-asset investment strategy.

From 2010

Independent advisory practice

Quantitative, risk and strategic advisory worldwide — quant-finance, risk-management and machine-learning / data-science engagements for global-macro hedge funds, clearing houses and investment banks (including the BNP Paribas Group and LCH Clearnet), alongside economic and strategic advisory for the World Bank, the International Labour Organization and the European Commission.

10+ years

Sciences Po · Lecturer

Teaching International Economics and Finance at one of France’s leading institutions.

Future of finance

Digital assets & next-generation markets

Advising on the architecture of next-generation markets — including the roadmap for a crypto-backed digital haven and commodities exchange for an African government — and tracking the on-chain frontier where prediction markets, perpetuals, stablecoins and DeFi extend the logic of conventional futures, FX and rate derivatives.

Today

Multipolarity AI · Founder

Building the AI foresight platform — multi-agent and machine-learning pipelines and knowledge graphs, trained and continuously monitored by human experts — and the research, training and advisory practice around it.

03 — Foundation

An elite foundation — engineering, quant finance and political economy.

The rare combination behind the platform’s genesis: the rigour of an engineer, the quantitative and machine-learning toolkit of a markets practitioner, and the lens of a political economist.

Training

Education

  • École Centrale ParisFinancial Engineering · consistently ranked among France’s top three engineering grandes écoles
  • Sciences Po ParisEconomics & Political Science
  • CFA CharterholderChartered Financial Analyst · quantitative finance, risk and investment analysis
Authorship

Published & spoken

  • Les Nouvelles puissances mondiales (2011)Among the first books to map the multipolar world — how the BRIC, then the BRICS and BRICS+, are reshaping the global order
  • Les économies arabes en mouvement (2019)A development model for the MENA region — foreword by Pascal Lamy, former WTO Director-General
  • Broadcast commentaryA regular voice on the BRICS+ and the multipolar economy across French and international media (France 24, BFM Business)
  • LanguagesFrench, Russian, Arabic & English — with German, Spanish and an interest in Chinese
04 — The ambition

Building the reference for predictive intelligence.

Beyond the platform, the ambition is singular: to build the reference company for predictive AI and AI-assisted decision-making and risk management — at the crossover of technology, finance, geopolitics and business intelligence, anchored by our Core Tech IP in graph data science and statistical relational AI (STAR AI).

From economic statecraft to the on-chain future of finance, we build the instruments that help institutions — and the traders arbitraging tomorrow’s markets — see and decide ahead of the curve: event-prediction models that calibrate against, and feed independent signals into, prediction markets, perpetuals, stablecoins and DeFi — the on-chain venues now extending what futures, FX and rate derivatives have always done.

05 — What we stand for

Values that hold under pressure.

01

Rigour

Every claim is traceable to its source. We push back on the unsupported — including our own outputs.

02

Foresight

We exist to see what is forming before it arrives, and to make it actionable.

03

Discretion

The most consequential work is the quietest. Confidentiality is a premise, not a promise.

04

Excellence

State-of-the-art technology, in the service of judgement — never the other way round.

Work with us.

Whether you need foresight, a programme, or counsel on a decision that matters — let’s talk.