2025 International Business Conference in France

His career started at Crédit Lyonnais (later merged into Credit Agricole CIB) as a financial analyst in London before moving to Paris, New York, Seoul and Hong Kong as head of various business units in commercial and investment banking. 

In 2008, he joined Natixis to identify and organize the assets to be run off by the bank. One year later, he was appointed Chief Risk Officer of Natixis and, from 2015 onwards, of the entire BPCE Group. From 2016, his responsibilities were expanded to Risk, Compliance and Permanent Control with the title of Deputy CEO.

He has been appointed as Group Secretary General in November 2018.

His expertise in financial crisis management is shared in 3 books: The legacy of the Global Financial Crisis (I.B. Tauris, 2021, collective book) and Maintenant le XXIe siècle peut vraiment commencer (Eyrolles, 2021, with Cristina Peicuti) and Of Banks and Crises (World Scientific, 2024, with Cristina Peicuti).

Aside from his banking career, Jacques Beyssade is a Foreign Trade Advisor to the French government and a Deputy Mayor of his village of Chouvigny.

Sarah Youngwood serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Nasdaq. With more than 25 years of leadership experience in corporate finance, financial reporting, and investor relations, Sarah leads a global team responsible for Corporate Finance, Treasury, Financial Planning & Analysis, Investor Relations, ESG Reporting, Procurement, Real Estate, Facilities, and Security.

Sarah joined Nasdaq from UBS Group, where she served as Chief Financial Officer and Group Executive Board member. In her role, Sarah led a global team of 3,500 people across Finance, Treasury and M&A, and played a key role in modernizing the bank’s infrastructure as well as the acquisition of Credit Suisse.

Prior to UBS, Sarah spent more than two decades at JPMorgan Chase in a number of executive roles, including Chief Financial Officer for the Consumer and Community Banking and Global Technology businesses, Head of Investor Relations, and Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group.

Sarah holds a combined undergraduate and Master’s Degree in Finance and Business from ESCP Business School. Since 2018, she has also served as an Advisory Board Member of Wall Street Women’s Alliance.

Alexandre joined the Private Debt team in Paris in 2022 to strengthen and lead Muzinich’s direct lending activity in France. Alexandre previously worked at LGT Private Debt as an Associate Director. Alexandre holds a Master’s in Management from ESCP Europe, and speaks French, English, Spanish, Italian and Serbian.

• As a Global Head of ETNR, Frank manages a team of c.20 senior bankers worldwide in charge of developing advisory and financing business with Energy players (Power and Renewables, Metals & Mining, Hydrogen, Bio energies, Oil and Gas players in transition)
• 30 years of experience in the banking industry, including 25 years as an Energy Banker.
• Frank started his career at Natixis in 1992 before joining Credit Agricole CIB as Global Head of Oil & Gas Structured Finance and then Standard Chartered Bank in London as Global Co-Head of Oil & Gas Corporate Finance, combining Structured Finance and Corporate Advisory. He joins Natixis again in 2018 to develop its Energy Franchise. In his current responsibility, Frank is leading the Energy Transition strategy of Natixis.
• Said Business School, University of Oxford, Executive Leadership Programme
• Universite Henri Poincare Master of Law
• Toulouse Business School Master in Management

Barbara oversees the offices in Dubai, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, managing the bank’s activities with primary focus on sustainability and transition impact.

Barbara began her career in 1997 as a field engineer at Schlumberger Oilfield Services, working in Latin America and Southeast Asia, before moving to Shell Capital and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London and Baku as an analyst. She joined WestLB in 2003 as an originator in the Energy team, and in 2007 moved to DZ Bank in the Structured finance team.

She joined Natixis in 2010 in Dubai and then New York and was appointed to her current role in 2020. Barbara is a Certified Board Member by GCC BDI: she sits on the Natixis subsidiary Board and chairs the Audit and Risk Committee. She is a graduate of master’s in chemical engineering at La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Jean-François advises Natixis' key accounts and is one of the experts called on by the European Central Bank’s Market Contact Groups, the European Commission and the European Parliament. As such, he is a keen observer of the economy and the markets, writing regularly for the French and international press.

 A graduate of Sciences Po and holder of a Master 2 in Applied Economics and a Master 2 in Market Finance, Jean-François began his career in 1996 at the Banque de France as Deputy Director. In 2001, he joined Natixis as a Fixed Income Trader before taking charge of strategy within Global Markets Research in 2007. 

He now leads a team of around sixty experts worldwide, economists, strategists and specialists in major sectors (energy transition, commodities, real estate, digital technology, mobility, etc.). Jean-François is also a teacher at Sorbonne University (Master 2 in Banking and Finance)

Carol Sirou is CEO of Ethifinance and independent director, drawing on 30 years of experience in general management positions in Europe and the United States.

She spent a large part of her career in financial services at Standard & Poor's Ratings: she managed the rating agency's activities in Paris between 2008 and 2014, then joined S&P headquarters in New York to implement set up a regulatory program, before taking responsibility for the group's global compliance, S&P Global Inc., in 2016. From 2018 to 2022, she founded her consulting firm in risk management and ESG.

Passionate about the challenges of sustainable finance, she was in June 2022 appointed CEO of EthiFinance, an independent European rating and ESG advisory player, with the ambition of accelerating the execution of the strategic and development plan of the agency in Europe.

She is also an independent director. In June 2022, she joined the Board of Directors of Crédit Agricole SA as a non-voting member and member of the audit and risk committees. She brings her knowledge of financial, governance and compliance topics as well as an international perspective, acquired during the seven years spent in New York between 2014 and 2022.

A graduate of Sciences Po Paris, she holds a Master's degree in corporate finance from Paris Dauphine University and a management program from the University of Virginia Darden Business School.

Aurélia de Garsignies is managing director of the Fonds de Dotation Transatlantique, the French endowment fund founded by Banque Transatlantique in 2012. She is also Head of philanthropy and employee engagement for the bank. The Fonds de Dotation Transatlantique is the first endowment fund created by a French bank and sheltering philanthropic funds for individuals and corporations. Since its creation in 2012 it collected more than 20 million € and funded over 700 projects in social, health, education and culture areas.

Aurélia has been active in non profit and philanthropy for more than 12 years. She led donor management in the art and culture sector (MAD Paris) and in children protection (Worldvision). She later on became a partner in a consulting agency dedicated for non profit sector, fundraising and philanthropy advising (AD LIMINA).

Barbara Weber is the Founding Partner of B Capital Partners.

Barbara has over 25 years of infrastructure investment, private equity as well as project finance experience gained at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, PolyTechnos Venture Partners and, since 2003 with B Capital Partners. Beforehand, she worked for the Private Sector Development Group of the World Bank. 

Barbara is a Member of the Board at B Capital Partners AG as well as of various of its portfolio companies. Until 2021, she served as Non-Executive Director for the London Pension Fund Authorities (LPFA). She is and has been on the IC of Palisade’s Real Assets Fund and the Impact Fund. Further, Barbara was key in setting up IST3, an infrastructure investment platform for Swiss pension funds, as well as its Investment Committee, of which she also was part for several years. She is a prolific author and has written four books on infrastructure investments, the latest one being "Infrastructure as an Asset Class. Second Edition" (2016). 

Barbara wrote her Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University and University of St. Gallen. She holds an MSc in Business & Operations Research from Warwick University and a post-graduate degree in International Relations from Mannheim University.

Natasha is the Global Head of Trade Sales and EMEA Trade Region Head within Payments at JPMorgan Chase. She has 20 years of experience across trade finance and working capital solutions for both corporate and financial institutions. Her global team provide strategic working capital advisory, risk mitigation, sales growth, and digital efficiencies for the top multinationals in the world.

She was recognized for her ESG advisory work in trade finance by Innovate Finance in the Women in Fintech Powerlist 2021 and was awarded the 2022 Social Impact award by Women in Payments. She was until recently the Co-Chair of the Bi+ Council, a global JPM-wide employee organization, and is active in JPM’s business resource groups for women and for underrepresented minorities. 

Prior to her current role Natasha was the Global Head of Core Trade for JP Morgan, in which capacity she ran all documentary trade products for the business. She served as Board Observer for JP Morgan on the board of fintech Taulia from 2020-22. Natasha joined the firm from Citi, where she was Global Trade Sales Head and a member of the Global Trade Management Committee. 

Natasha holds a Master of Arts from Oxford University where she studied Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE).

Since 2020, Elodie Laugel is Chief Responsible Investment Officer of Amundi, in charge of leading the department gathering ESG experts department and leading the development of Responsible investment. She is a member of Amundi Executive Committee. 

She joined Amundi in 2016 as Head of Institutional Business Development support, in charge of supporting deployment of firm’s offering to institutional clients. She was previously working at AXA Investment Managers where she has been working for 12 years, with several roles from Head of Financial Engineering team in 2006, head of the Solutions Development Unit in charge of creating and engineering investment solutions for a wide range of international institutional clients, and in 2014 Deputy Head of Institutional Client Group, in charge of leading Institutional development strategy. Prior to joining AXA, she spent 4 years as an Equity Quant Strategist at HSBC Asset Management.

Elodie graduated from Paris Dauphine University in Applied Mathematics and she obtained a DEA in Financial Mathematics from dauphine and the French ENSAE (Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Economique). She is also a CFA charterholder.

Segolene is a senior Science Manager and global Responsible AI tech lead at AWS Generative AI Innovation Center. She supports AWS customers in their scaling GenAI strategy by implementing robust governance processes and effective AI and Cybersecurity risk management systems by leveraging AWS capabilities and SoTA science models. Prior to join AWS in 2018, she was a full time professor in Finance at New York University Polytechnic. She also served for several years as an independent consultant in financial disputes and regulatory investigations.

L. Daziano has over 25 years of experience in a French public company where she hold executive positions in strategy, economics regulation, finance, audits & risks, and European affairs. She is also a non executive director of a British transportation company and of a French reinsurance company. Since 2008, Laurence is also a senior lecturer in economics at Sciences Po Paris. Laurence holds a MBA from ESSEC, a diploma from Sciences Po Paris, and a Master of Political Sciences from the Freie Universität Berlin.

Laurence specializes in international economics and emerging countries.  She is a member of the Scientific Council of the Foundation for Political Innovation and Paris Bosphorus Institute. She is also known for her editorials in papers including but not limited to Le Monde, Les Échos, and L'Opinion. She published in 2014 “Les pays émergents, une approche géoéconomique” (Dunod) and « The New Wave of Emerging Countries: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Indonesia, Vietnam and Mexico” (www.fondapol.org).

Private Banking and Wealth Management Director at Banque Transatlantique

Member of Banque Transatlantique’s managing committee

Board member, DTG investment firm EUR 10b AuM

Previously corporate account manager at SE BANKEN in London, Private Banker at BNP Paribas. 

Joined Banque Transatlantique in 2007 to develop its US Private Banking activity and then more largely its international activity. 

Panel representative at the French parliament committee on the impact of US taxation of US citizens residing in France.