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Member of the european parliament and Renew Europe coordinator on the committee on the environment, climate and food safety

Pascal Canfin is a French European Parliament MP. He is a member of the Europe ensemble delegation and the Renew Europe group.
Former chair of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (2019-2024), he was one of the main architects of the European Green Deal. He is now the coordinator of the Renew Europe group within this committee. He is also a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

Mr Canfin was Director General of WWF France from 2016 to 2019. He was Head Counselor for Climate at the World Resources Institute (WRI) from 2014 to 2015, ahead of COP21 in Paris, and co-chaired the Commission for climate financing innovation.

He was delegated Minister for Development, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2014 after having served as a European member of parliament from 2009 to 2012 as part of the French Les Verts (Ecological) party.

On 15 October 2025 Éditions Odile Jacob published his latest book (in French) "Gagner le combat du Pacte vert. Une révolution en danger".
https://www.odilejacob.fr/catalogue/sciences-humaines/sciences-politiques/gagner-le- combat-du-pacte-vert_9782415012830.php

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Head of Global Research -
Chief Economist and Strategist

ESCP Business School, Paris
SFAF graduate

François Duhen has been holding the position of Head of Global Research since 2018 on top of coordinating economic research and asset class implications on behalf of the group (since 2008). Previously he held various financial research positions, following a stint in M&A and two periods covering the automotive sector.

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Head of the Institut Mutualiste pour l’Environnement et la Solidarité (Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale)

Laurent Berger is a leading figure in French and European trade unionism. After studying history, he worked as a job counsellor and quickly became involved in trade unionism within the Confédération française démocratique du travail (CFDT), one of France's largest trade unions.

He joined the CFDT in 1996, working on issues related to employment and youth. He gradually rose through the ranks of the union, becoming Secretary General of the CFDT in 2012, a position he held until 2023. Under his leadership, the CFDT established itself as the leading trade union in France. Mr Berger has focused on issues such as labour, pension reform, the fight against social inequality and the strengthening of social dialogue between trade unions, employers and the government. From 2019 to 2023, he was the president of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC).

In September 2023, he joined the banking and insurance group Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale, to spearhead the creation of a centre of expertise on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues. Since its operational launch in March 2024, Laurent Berger has headed the Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale’s Institut mutualiste pour l'environnement et la solidarité (Mutualist Institute for the Environment & Solidarity), whose mission is to implement the group's ESG ambitions based on the Institute’s expertise, while ensuring the consistency of action and coordination of all stakeholders. The aim is to support all business lines and elected members in these environmental and solidarity-based transformations, in the service of the group's customers.

Since April 2025, he has also been Chairman of the Board of Directors of CIC Ouest.

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Chief Scientific Officer, Renault Group

Dr. Luc JULIA, Chief Scientific Officer for Renault, was CTO and Senior Vice President of Innovation for Samsung Electronics, directed Siri at Apple, was Chief Technologist at Hewlett-Packard and cofounded a number of start-ups in the Silicon Valley. While conducting research at SRI International, he was involved in the creation of Nuance Communications, now the world leader in speech recognition.

Recipient of Légion d’Honneur, the highest order of France, and member of its National Academy ofTechnologies, he holds degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from theUniversity Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris.

He is the bestselling author of the book “There is no such thing as Artificial Intelligence”, holds dozens of patents and is recognized as one of the top 100 most influential French developers in the digital world.

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CEO of Novethic

Anne-Catherine Husson-Traore is CEO of Novethic, the Caisse des Dépôts Group's sustainable transformation driver, which she co-founded. A talented and wide-ranging journalist, she became interested in sustainable finance in 2001, and since then has been committed to answering the question: how can we accelerate the transformation of the financial sector and companies towards greater social and environmental responsibility? Today, as one of the leading figures in sustainable finance, she promotes the development of a responsible and transformative finance in France and abroad.

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Head of Custodian Solutions

Nathalie Keller began her career at Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale in 1998. In 2006 she was named Head of Permanent Control for CM-CIC Securities.

In 2012 she became Head of Custody, where she also oversaw the UCI Custody business (Asset custody, Control, Cash monitoring).

Since 2019, she has been Head of Custodian Solutions at CIC Market Solutions, the commercial management of CIC's market activities. She is in charge of an Asset Servicing division that includes custody account-keeping, the mutual fund custodian business and the Buy Side Desk. CIC Market Solutions is a leader in the independent portfolio management segment.

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CEO and Founder of Ardian

Dominique Senequier is the founder and chairwoman of Ardian, a leading global private investment company. She founded the company in 1996 at the request of Claude Bébéar to create a private equity arm for AXA. In 2013, under her leadership, AXA Private Equity became Ardian when management and staff acquired the company, making it an employee-owned business with more than 70% of employees as shareholders. Ms Senequier built a talented team that has enabled Ardian to become a European leader and global powerhouse in investment.

Dominique Senequier has always believed that finance should be a force for good in society. She has ensured that Ardian's core values and ideals are put into practice through innovation and a holistic approach to sustainability. In 2008, she was the first to share the exit value with all employees of portfolio companies, not just management. Ardian's goal is to invest in the creation of sustainable businesses, with a vision of sustainability that enables individuals to create lasting value for all stakeholders. This approach has influenced all aspects of Ardian's activities, changing the way the company invests and measures the performance of its portfolio companies.

In 2010, Ms. Senequier initiated the creation of the Ardian Foundation, which supports social causes by helping talented children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to realise their potential through education. Ms Senequier has received international recognition for her contributions to the finance sector, frequently appearing in rankings of the world's most powerful people. In 2021, she was named Officer of the Legion of Honour by French President Emmanuel Macron and was elected to the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques in 2023.

Dominique Senequier was one of the first seven women admitted to the Ecole Polytechnique in 1972 and holds a DEA in banking and monetary economics from the University of Paris-Sorbonne (1976).

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President of France Industrie, Vice-President of France’s National Council for Industry, Chairman of the Board of Directors of France Travail

A former student of the École Polytechnique, Alexandre Saubot began his career in various governmental positions (General Delegation for Armament, Treasury Department), in a ministerial office (Ministry of Culture and Communication) and in banking (Natexis Banque Populaire). Since 2000, he has been at the helm of Haulotte Group SA, a family-owned medium-sized company specialising in the manufacture of aerial work platforms and telescopic forklift-trucks. The company employs 1,900 people worldwide and generated €634m in revenue in 2024, more than 80% of which was generated outside France. In March 2020, Alexandre Saubot was elected Vice-President of France Industrie, the professional organisation representing industry in France. He has been its President since November 2020. He has also been Chairman of the Board of Directors of France Travail since 31 January 2024. Former President of UIMM (2015–2018) and Unedic, and former Vice-President of MEDEF and Pôle Emploi, he has solid experience in industry and professional organisations. From 2019 to 2021, he was the first president of OPCO 2i, an inter-industry skills operator. France Industrie groups together 30 industry sector federations and the CEOs of some 50 large private and public companies operating in all industrial sectors. It is the main point of contact for public authorities on cross-cutting industrial issues: competitiveness, employment, ecological transition, innovation and digital technology, European industrial policy and regional attractiveness.

Using concrete examples from the automotive and healthcare industries, we will be talking to Luc Julia (Chief Scientific Officer at Renault and co-founder of SIRI) about the technological hurdles, economic contributions and constraints, cultural and ethical biases and social implications of AI. And what about applied AI?

The central issue at stake at COP 28, which opens on 30 November 2023 in Dubai, the land of oil: an agreement to phase out fossil fuels, no less!
Anne-Catherine Husson-Traore, CEO and co-founder of Novethic and a leading figure in responsible finance, will take us through all the issues at stake at this major climate summit. Is the Paris Agreement burning?

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