Jean-Philippe Bouchaud was born in 1962.

An alumnus of the École normale supérieure, he is Chairman and Chief Research Officer of Capital Fund Management. A specialist in the statistical physics of disordered media, he is one of the pioneers of "econophysics", a discipline that seeks to apply the concepts and methods of physics to economic systems and financial markets. He is the author of over three hundred and fifty scientific publications, including several books and journal articles. He was awarded the CNRS silver medal in 1996 and the Quant of the Year prize in 2017 and 2018. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 2018.