Agnès Bénassy-Quéré is a professor at the Paris School of Economics - University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is also a member of the French macro-prudential authority, the Board of the Banque de France, of the Cercle des économistes and a fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA) and of CESIfo. She first worked at French Ministry of Finance and Industry, before holding academic positions at the universities of Cergy-Pontoise, Lille 2, École Polytechnique, Paris-Ouest and Ecole Polytechnique.  

She was also Deputy Director, then Director of CEPII, the French research institute in international economics, and chaired the French Council of Economic Analysis. Her research interests focus on the international monetary system and European macroeconomic policy.

Yves Bonnefont graduated from the Ecole Centrale Paris. In 1994, he started his career at PSA Peugeot Citroën at the Rennes factory and the technical center in Vélizy.

He then moved to consultancy: first four years with Arthur Andersen, where he led the automotive practice in France, then eleven years with McKinsey, where he worked mainly with automotive and high-tech clients. Elected partner in 2006, from 2007 he led the global knowledge committee of McKinsey's automotive practice.  Since 2010, he was a member of the global committee in charge of the election of new partners. 

In 2012, Yves Bonnefont returned to the PSA Group as Director of Strategy, and oversaw the evolution in positioning of the Peugeot and Citroën brands. In April 2013, he was appointed Deputy Managing Director of the Citroën brand before becoming the CEO of the DS brand in 2014. His mission is to make DS a leading international automotive brand that embodies French savoir-faire in luxury and is distinguished by its pioneering spirit.

Grégory Claeys has been a research fellow at Bruegel since 2014 and an associate professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris where he has been teaching macroeconomics since 2015.

His research interests include international macroeconomics and finance, central banking and European economic governance. Prior to joining Bruegel, he conducted research in several capacities, including as a visiting researcher in the Financial Research Department of the Central Bank of Chile in Santiago and as an economist in the Research Department of the French bank Crédit Agricole in Paris.

He holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute (Florence), an MSc in economics from Paris X University and an MSc in management from HEC Paris.

CEO of Voltalia since 2011, Sébastien Clerc has over 25 years’ experience in the infrastructure sector, and notably renewable energies. Following 10 years in project financing at Crédit Lyonnais in Canada, then in New York, he returned to France in 1999 to join Ixis, a subsidiary of Caisse des dépôts at this time, where he created and developed three activities: project financing consulting, management of infrastructure investment funds and the project financing. Sébastien Clerc was president of Natixis Environnement & Infrastructures (formerly IXIS Environnement & Infrastructures) from 2000 to 2011.

From September 2009 he also managed Natixis Alternative Assets before joining Voltalia as CEO. Since he took his position, Voltalia successfully completed its IPO on Euronext Paris (comp.B) and achieved an additional capital increase of 170 million euros in 2016. On that same year, the acquisition of Martifer Solar allowed Voltalia to accelerate its growth on the African continent.
Sébastien Clerc is a graduate of IEP Paris and the University of Paris X.

Daniel Cohen-Bendit is a journalist and politician, former co-president of the Greens/European Free Alliance Group in the European Parliament.

Born in 1945 in Montauban, France, he returned to Germany in 1958 and obtained his baccalauréat in 1965 from the German "Odenwaldschule" in Oberhambach. He moved to France and began studying sociology at the University of Nanterre where he became the spokesperson and leader of the May 1968 revolution. At the time, he was nicknamed "Dany the Red".

In 1968, he was expelled from France to Germany. Between 1969 and 1973, he worked as an educator in an "anti-authoritarian" nursery in Frankfurt (Sachsenhausen) and in a bookshop. In 1976, Daniel Cohn-Bendit was editor-in-chief and journalist of the leading magazine for anarchists in Frankfurt ("Sponti-Szene"), the "Pflasterstrand".

In 1984, Daniel Cohn-Bendit joined the "DIE GRÜNEN" party. From 1989 to 1997, he accepted the honorary position of City Councillor for Multicultural Affairs at Frankfurt City Hall, under a red-green coalition.
From 1994 to 2003, he regularly hosted a literary programme, "Literaturclub", broadcast on the Swiss German channel "Schweizer Fernsehen", as well as on the German channel "3 SAT".

In June 1994, Daniel Cohn-Bendit became a member of the European Parliament having been elected on the list of German GRÜNEN. Since then, he has renewed his mandate as an MEP by alternating his candidacy on French or German lists. In 2009, he launched the "Europe Ecologie" movement, bringing together personalities from the political and associative sectors, capturing 16.28% of votes in France, and was re-elected to the European Parliament as leader of the Ile-de-France list.

Xavier Durand, CEO of Coface since February 2016, has more than 25 years’ experience in the regulated financial services industry in Europe, the US and Asia.
 
He started his career in 1987 in consultancy at The Mac Group (Gemini Consulting) before joining the GMF in 1991 and the Sovac Real Estate Bank in 1994 as Deputy CEO.
                               
In 1996, Xavier joined GE Capital, where he began an international career, first in Chicago as Director of Strategy and Growth of the finance division of the Global Auto business. He was appointed successively CEO of GE Money in France in 2002, in Europe in 2005, and of GE Capital’s banking activities in Europe, Russia and Turkey in 2009. In 2011, he was named CEO of GE Capital Asia Pacific, based in Japan. He was appointed GE Capital’s Director of Strategy and Growth, based in London, at the end of 2013.
 
Xavier has held Board and Board Committee positions in several large international banking and financial services businesses: Garanti Bank listed bank in Turkey; Kungsri Group listed bank in Thailand; Hyundai Capital in Korea; Axa France Vie and IARD; and WiZink Bank in Spain. He currently serves as Board Member and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of French listed ALD Automotive.
 
He is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.

Simon Evenett is Professor of International Trade and Economic Development at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland. He is coordinator of Global Trade Alert, the independent trade policy watchdog, whose published reports can be obtained from https://www.globaltradealert.org/reports.

Professor Evenett's interests include protectionism, trade disputes, WTO and regional trade negotiations, emerging markets, and the manner in which firms actually compete internationally. He was educated at Cambridge and Yale universities, taking economics degrees at both.

Professor Evenett comments frequently on leading international economic developments to the media and has authored or edited over 200 articles, book chapters, and volumes.

Dr. Samuel Furfari is a recognised authority on energy policy based in Brussels. Between 1982 and 2018, he was a senior official on energy policy in the European Commission. Samuel Farfari has been professor of energy geopolitics at the Free University of Brussels since 2003.

Dr. Furfari earned a BSc degree in chemical engineering from the Free University of Brussels (ULB). He received his PhD from the same university with a thesis in the field of energy. He has been working during 36 years at the European Commission where he has devoted his entire career to energy. He designed and implemented various energy and sustainable development policies. He also contributed to the coordination of various energy policies by advising the Director General. He worked also for the European Energy Forum which is a group of Members of the European Parliament.
 
Dr Furfari has been teaching the Geopolitics of Energy at the Free University of Brussels for the last 15 years. He is often invited to lecture on politics and the geopolitics of energy in various other universities. 
 
He is regularly invited to speak at conferences throughout Europe and in the media. 
 
He is the author of 10 books on energy and sustainable development and numerous articles. His last 1,200 page textbook is in 2 volumes: "The changing world of energy and the geopolitical challenges" (February 2017) link here. Dr Furfari was named Knight of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland in September 2017 by the President of the Republic of Poland.
 
An Italian citizen, Dr. Samuel Furfari was born in Charleroi in 1953. 

Ulysse Gosset, foreign affairs columnist for BFMTV, number one french television news channel, is a professional journalist with extensive experience covering world affairs: the fall of the Soviet Union, Bill Clinton’s Presidency, 9/11 and America under attack, George W. Bush at the White House, the 2008 world financial crisis and the G20 Summits. 

He is also an interviewer for Politique Internationale, Paris, France, the main french foreign policy review. (ITW: Tony Blair, Laurent Fabius, Nicolas Sarkozy, Jacques Chirac, Bill Clinton, Alain Delon, Michel Platini, jean Pierre Raffarin, José Manuel Barroso, Ban Ki-Moon, Kofi Annan, Angelina Jolie, Bono, Shimon Peres, Vaclav Havel, Mikhail Gorbachev, Sharon Stone, Donald Tsang, Ratan Tata, Carlos Ghosn, and Christine Lagarde)

Ulysse Gosset, a former Director at France Télévisions Group, was COO and member of the board of France 24, in charge of News and Programming and former Director of the channel project for France Télévisions, has been anchor and executive producer of the show “The Talk of Paris”, on France 24, the first French International News Channel.
Ulysse Gosset was Editor in charge of national news at France 3 Televisions, France Télévisions Group, in Paris, prior to working with the International News Channel, France 24.
He was a correspondent in Moscow and Washington.

Sylvie Goulard is deputy governor of the Banque de France since January 2018, 18th.
Between 2001 and 2004, she was political advisor to Romano Prodi, during his time as President of the European Commission.
She served as member of the European Parliament (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) from 2009-2017.

As MEP, she was a member of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (coordinator, rapporteur of several files on Finance and Governance of the euro area and banking union) ; she also chaired the parliamentary Intergroup fight against poverty – aiming at giving a voice to deprived people in the European institutions.
After her law studies, and having graduated from Sciences Po Paris and the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, Sylvie Goulard worked as a diplomat in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, mainly on European integration and Germany. She also worked at the French Conseil d'Etat.

Sylvie Jéhanno, 49, graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole des Mines in Paris, before joining EDF as the manager of a gas network team (then EDF GDF SERVICES). She later moved into Sales and Marketing, taking charge of a customer relations centre, and then a marketing team responsible for preparing the liberalisation of the energy market in 1999. In 2005, she was appointed B-to-B Marketing Director, then, Vice President for Key Accounts in 2007. From the end of 2011 to the end of 2016, she was Senior Vice President for Residential Customers at EDF, in charge of 5,000 employees working for around 25 million customers. Her achievements include launching the digital transformation strategy for residential customers and leading the innovation project that established the EDF Group in the smart home market by launching the subsidiary start-up, Sowee and its smart energy management device.

In January 2017, she became Chief Executive Officer of Dalkia, a subsidiary of EDF and a leader in energy services, before becoming Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer in January 2018. On the same date, she became Chairwoman of Dalkia Wastenergy, Dalkia's subsidiary specialising in the recovery of household waste.

Julien Marcilly has worked as Chief Economist at Coface since March 2015. Prior to this position, he has been the Deputy Chief Economist of Coface and Head of Country Risk at Coface since 2012. He joined Coface from New York-based asset management company, and was an economist with Société Générale prior to this.
 
He has an extensive background in emerging markets, a PhD in financial economics from Paris-Dauphine University, and a Master in Management from ESCP Europe.

A graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Chief Engineer of the French Corps des Mines, Patrick Pouyanné held various positions in the French Industry Ministry and in ministerial offices from 1989 to 1996, including Environment and Industry Technical Advisor to the Prime minister (E. Balladur) from 1993 to 1995 and Chief of Staff to the information technology and space minister (F. Fillon) from 1995 to 1996.

He joined Total in January 1997, as Chief Administrative Officer of Total E&P Angola and became Group Representative in Qatar in 1999. In August 2002, he was named Senior Vice President, Finance, Economics and Information Systems in Exploration & Production, then Senior Vice President, Strategy, Business Development and R&D in Exploration & Production in 2006.

In January 2012, Patrick Pouyanné was appointed President, Refining & Chemicals and member of the Executive Committee. On 22 October 2014, the Board of Directors of Total appointed him Chief Executive Officer and President of the Executive Committee.
On 29 May 2015, he was elected as Member of the Board of Directors of Total. On 16 December 2015, Total’s board of directors appointed Patrick Pouyanné as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Total.

Patrick Pouyanné was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor in April 2015.

Benjamin Revcolevschi, 45, is Fujitsu's Managing Director in France since 2015.
Within the global B2B digital giant (€ 40bn, 150,000 employees), the world's 5th largest IT services company and co-creation specialist, he is developing the French subsidiary around the transformation of the business user experience, application & infrastructure cloud migration as well as artificial intelligence solutions.

In 2017, he announced together with the Chairman of the Fujitsu Group, an investment of 50 M € in France with the creation of a center of excellence on artificial intelligence in Saclay, research partnerships and collaborations with start-ups, and works to strengthen the French-Japanese innovation.

Previously, he had developed for 7 years business clouds, Internet of Things and the operations of SFR Business Team / Neuf Cegetel.
His experience has also been forged during 7 years in the accompaniment of the leaders of large French and international groups, in particular in industry and telecoms, within one of the world leaders in strategy consulting, The Boston Consulting Group .
Benjamin Revcolevschi graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, Télécom Paris and Paris-Dauphine

Pierre Sellal, French ambassador, has dedicated most of his career to European affairs. For ten years, until the end of 2017, he was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of France to the European Union in Brussels, where he held several positions. He was therefore a direct stakeholder in all the major European negotiations.

In addition, he held the highest positions of office in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as Chief of Staff to the Minister (1997-2002) and then as General Secretary (2009-2014).

He is currently President of the Fondation de France and Senior Counsel with law firm August-Debouzy.

Jean-Dominique Senard is a graduate of HEC business school and holds a Master’s Degree in Law. He began his career in various financial and operational positions with Total, from September 1979 to September 1987, then with Saint Gobain, from 1987 to 1996.
 
Between September 1996 and March 2001, he was Chief Financial Officer of Péchiney and a member of its Group Executive Council. He was also head of Péchiney’s Primary Metal sector until 2005.
 
Jean-Dominique Senard joined Michelin in March 2005 as Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Group Executive Council.

In May 2007, he was appointed Managing Partner of the Michelin Group and in May 2011, Managing General Partner alongside Michel Rollier. He succeeded Michel Rollier as CEO of the Group in May 2012.

He was appointed Chairman of Renault in January 2019.

Jean-Dominique Senard is Lead Independent Director of the Board of Saint-Gobain.

Mechthild Wörsdörfer joined the IEA on 1 October 2018 as Director of Sustainability, Technology and Outlooks (STO). Ms Wörsdörfer plans and co-ordinates the IEA’s work on energy sustainability, encompassing energy technology policy and climate change policy. She oversees several of the IEA’s major analytical reports including long-term scenarios and technology roadmaps.