Gwendal Combot is a graduate of Applied Mathematics at the University of Montréal and the University of Paris Saclay. He is a specialist in Economic and Financial Big Data, he works for a major French bank on complementary mathematical analyses. In this capacity, he is a researcher at UNSW Business School. Due to his extensive knowledge of Russian and Lithuanian, he is required to supervise the review committees/work carried out by Blue Europe on the Baltic countries and Ukraine.