Position

Managing Director

Education

Marie-Pierre de Bailliencourt holds a Ph.D in Geopolitics from Université Paris-Sorbonne after having completed Ph.D studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Throughout her career she has held diverse roles related to strategy, operations and international affairs, in both public and private environments, with a focus on technology and geopolitical matters. Her professional experience began in the Office of the UN Secretary General in 1995. She then moved to the private sector in a leadership role conducting the international development and M&A at Rexel and was a consultant at McKinsey in the early 2000s. From 2004 onwards, she held various high level management positions : Vice-president Industries at Dassault Systèmes, Deputy Managing Director at Bull and Deputy CEO at Naval Group.

Her passion for academic reflection led her to maintain close ties with some of the most influential French academic universities/institutions. She is the author of a "Traité pratique de négociation" and has been teaching Public Affairs at Sciences Po Paris for several years. Her background reflects her interest in sovereign issues and complex environments.

Marie-Pierre de Bailliencourt is on the Groupe La Poste’s Board of Directors and is Chair of its Quality and Sustainable Development Committee, where she represented the French State and now represents the CDC (Caisse des dépôts et consignations). She is also an independent Director of ComGest and Exclusive Networks. These three French companies are representative of today's social, economic and technological environments.

Position

Head of Global Research
Chief Economist and Strategist

Education

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.

Position

Director of the French Institute of International Relations

Education

PhD in the History of International Relations (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
EMBA (HEC)

Thomas Gomart has been Director of the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) since 2015. He was a member of the editorial board of the French Defence and National Security Strategic Review 2017, which reports to the French Ministry of Defence. Thomas Gomart is a member of the IHEDN Scientific Advisory Board and of the editorial boards of Politique étrangère, Revue des deux mondes and Études. His current research focuses on Russia, digital governance, French foreign policy, geopolitical risk and think tanks. He recently published ‘L'affolement du monde’ (Tallandier, 2019), ‘Guerres invisibles’ (Tallandier, 2021) and ‘Les ambitions inavouées. Ce que préparent les grandes puissances’ (Tallandier, 2023). His latest book, ‘L'accélération de l'histoire. Les noeuds géostratégiques d'un monde hors de contrôle’, Éditions Tallandier, was published in January 2024. Thomas Gomart holds a PhD in the History of International Relations (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) and an EMBA (HEC). He is a Knight of the National Order of Merit.

Position

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.

Position

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.

Position

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 UCITS Custody business (Asset custody, Control, Cash monitoring).

Since 2019, she has been Head of Custodian Solutions at CIC Market Solutions, CIC's stock market division. She is in charge of 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, offering its financial institution clients high value-added services in account keeping and custody.

Plenary session with Marie-Pierre de Bailliencourt

What are the prospects for 2025? with François Duhen, Chief Economist and Strategist

Two weeks after the US elections: what are the implications for the global economic outlook and our expectations for interest rates, currencies, and other financial assets?

Overview of the geopolitical challenges of 2025

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?

Rencontres avec les Sociétés de Gestion

Rencontres avec les Sociétés de Gestion