After studying law in Paris and London Charles Muller became a Luxembourg barrister. In 1994 he joined Banque Générale du Luxembourg, then, in 2003, the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) where he held the position of Deputy Director General. He was also a Board member of the world-wide federation of investment fund associations (IIFA) and a member of the Management Committee of the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA).
Since December 2011, Charles Muller is a partner with KPMG Luxembourg, in charge of the Investment Management arm of the EMEA Financial Services Regulatory Centre of Excellence. Alain Ruttiens holds a master's degree in Chemical Engineering (Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium). After about a 20-years experience in financial markets (mainly Indosuez bank), he started his own business as a partner of NEURON sàrl, providing services related to financial markets and products.
He is professeur affilié at ESCP Europe (Paris), also teaching in several universities and institutions, a.o. HEC Paris, the Sorbonne University of Paris 1, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Paris). He is also the author of several books, among others, Futures, swaps & options, Edipro (4th ed., spring 2012), and Mathematics of the financial markets, John Wiley & sons, March 2013.