During his career, Sébastien Abis has developed an expertise on the geopolitics of food security and agriculture. He also works on the evolution of French power, the challenges of sovereignty in Europe, and the dynamics of globalization. He started his career at the French Ministry of Defense in 2004, before joining the Center for Analysis and Liaison of Mediterranean Actors in 2004-2005. From 2005 to 2016, he worked at the International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies.
Sébastien Aris is teaching at the Université Catholique de Lille and at Junia-Engineering school. He is an associate expert in many think tanks & associations.
Sébastien Aris graduated from the University of Lille II with a Master's degree in History-Geography and from the Institute of Political Studies of Lille in European Strategic Studies.

Obashola had previous work experiences with leading insurance companies in Nigeria where he served as MD/CEO and Member of the Boards. 
Obashola Alo attended the prestigious Lagos Business School, University of Lagos and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, all in Nigeria, for his academic and research work. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute.
 

Alain Antil gained his PhD in political geography at the University of Rouen. Prior to this, he was an Associate Researcher at the Laboratoire d’Etude du Développement des Régions Arides, collaborated for the International Crisis Group and regularly contributed to the Sciences Humaines review. He has also taught at the University of Rouen and the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines.

She is the editor of the agency’s flagship Oil Market Report and Medium Term Oil Market Report. She is also a regular contributor to the IEA’s World Energy Outlook and World Energy Investments and plays a lead role in the agency’s essential work on energy security.

He spent 9 years within the Natixis / BPCE group as an economist specialising in France and the euro zone. In 2014, he joined the strategy and economic intelligence department of TotalEnergies as Deputy of the Chief Economist, which allowed him to become an expert in energy markets while continuing to make macroeconomic forecasts. In 2019, he became Chief Economist of the TotalEnergies Group.

Prior to joining Coface, he worked for the Chancery of the Embassy of India in Paris, where he was specialized in project management and high-level coordination between the Indian and French governments.
Aroni holds a Bachelor’s degree in applied economics from the University of Paris-Dauphine and a Master’s Degree in geopolitics from the Insititut Français de Géopolitique, specializing in the field of socio-economic risk analysis and management.

In 2015, she moved to the Building Distribution Sector central team as Digital Project Leader, then in 2017 to DSC within SGDB France as Director Marketing Studies and Pricing. Since 2019, Noémie has been Digital Director SGDB France.
Noémie Chocat has been appointed Vice-President Corporate Strategy as of October 1, 2021.
She has dual Franco-Japanese nationality.

Prior to joining AXA, he was a Senior Partner in McKinsey & Company. During his 30-year career with McKinsey, Georges led the Private Equity practice in North Asia based in Hong Kong (1 year), was Managing Partner for Africa (3 years), Managing Partner for Japan (5 years), led State Owned Entreprises transformation in China (7 years) and was part of the France senior leadership team as well. Georges was a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders Council, the Firm's global governing body, from 2015 to 2018, chairing the Firm’s Governance Committee.
Georges authored the book “Africa’s Business Revolution” (November 2018, Harvard Business Review), wrote articles such as “Leadership lessons from Africa’s trailblazers,” McKinsey & Company, January 2019, and published reports such as “Lions on the Move 2” (September 2016, McKinsey Global Institute), “The Future of Japan: Reigniting Growth and Productivity” (March 2015, McKinsey Global Institute).
He graduated from École Centrale Paris and holds a M.S. in Mech. Engineering from MIT.

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.

As Lavoisier Fellow at the State Institute for International Relations (University-MGIMO – Moscow), Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies (European Union – Paris) and Marie Curie Fellow at Department of War Studies (King‟s College – London), Gomart’s academic and professional background has been closely related to post-Soviet space. He published, among others: Russian Civil-Military Relations: Putin’s Legacy (Carnegie, 2008) and (dir.) Russian Energy Security and Foreign Policy (Routledge, 2011). Gomart belongs to the editorial boards of Politique étrangère, and La Revue des deux mondes in which he recently published: “Crimée : retour du passé et fuite en avant, June 2014.