Our Judges
Project jury
Laurent Barbezieux
CEO and co-founder
Aktio
Laurent Barbezieux co-founded Aktio in 2020 with Alex Huyn and Thibault Faninger, two environmental engineers, to provide a carbon calculation and management platform to companies, in order to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy. Prior to Aktio, Laurent worked as strategy consultant (Arthur D. Little, Kearney) in the energy/utility, telecom and transportation sectors, mainly on strategy and corporate transformation programs.
Nourdine Bihmane
Group Chief delivery Officer and Decarbonisation Business Line
Atos
Nourdine Bihmane is Group Chief Delivery Officer of Atos, responsible for driving Global Operations. He is also the Head of the Net-Zero Transformation business line, a strategic program to support companies and public organizations to reach net zero and reduce the carbon footprint of their core business and digital processes. Since 2021, he is also Chief Marketing Officer of Atos.
Born in 1977, Nourdine Bihmane joined Atos in 2002. In 2015, he was appointed Head of Operations for North America. Named in 2019 Head of Business & Platform Solutions, Public and Regional Business and member of the Atos Group Management Committee, in 2020 Nourdine took over Atos business in Asia-Pacific, India, the Middle East, Africa & Latin America, becoming the CEO of the entity.
Nourdine graduated from CNAM in France and holds executive degrees from Princeton University and INSEAD.
Daniel Jacob
Founder and Principal Consultant
Changing Habits Solutions
Daniel's extensive background in corporate finance, operations and business strategy solidifies his ability to support companies from strategic planning to operational execution. With 10 years experience collaborating with over 100 companies who embed sustainability in their core strategy with a focus on ESG integration, Daniel provides a wide array of international insights as the Founder and Principal Consultant of Changing Habits Solutions.
Pierre-Alix Lorret-Bavai
Co-Founder
2Tonnes
Formerly Operations Manager in team mobilisation consulting in Canada, he then moved to Argentina, where he co-founded an energy transition consulting company, before returning to France and meeting François Laugier, his fellow co-founder, thanks to La Fresque du Climat.
Passionate about the organisational and cultural aspects of change, Pierre-Alix is in charge of developing the atelier 2tonnes in companies, partnerships, communication and structuring the community of facilitators.
Kristina Rozhkova
International Acceleration Startup Program Manager
Creative Valley
Passionate about innovation and healthtech, she has co-created the first Technology Acceptance Model of connected objects by Healthcare professionals (TAM SIM). Experienced International Specialist in the Medical device and Pharmaceutical industries, Internet of Things (IoT), and International Business Strategy. Today at Creative Valley she is in charge of the EMEA Startup & Scaleup ecosystem with the objectif to design and implement Acceleration Startup Programs in Health Tech (Creative Health) and their commercial and commercial acquisition strategy.
Policy jury
Ruggero Aricò
Global Head of Institutional Affairs for Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania
Enel Green Power
Ruggero Aricò, a law graduate and a lawyer, joined Enel in 2000 at the Institutional and International Affairs Department. He then worked in Brussels, in Moscow as Head of External Relations for Russia and eventually in Algeria. In March 2016 he was appointed as the global Head of Institutional Affairs for Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania in Enel Green Power, the biggest renewable energy private company in the world.
He is also Vice President of “Confindustria Assafrica & Mediterraneo”, board member of the Italia-ASEAN Association and Member of the Coalition for Action Steering Committee at IRENA. In January 2021, he became a member of the B20, the official G20 dialogue forum with the global business community and he has been assigned to the Task Force “Action Council on Sustainability & Global Emergencies”.
Isabelle Huynh
Administrator
Conseil Economique, social et environnemental (CESE)
Isabelle spent 15 years in Washington, DC with the World Bank Group where she worked on infrastructure and public policy projects related to information technology, mostly in Africa and the Middle East. Sector policy definition, project monitoring and evaluation, infrastructure financing and private sector leveraging, sector regulation and capacity building, government transformation: she worked on these topics with a growing concern about climate change and how the digital revolution poses great challenges and opportunities. Back in Paris, Isabelle currently works at the Conseil économique, social et environnemental (CESE) as the administrator of the economic and finance commission.
Roberto Lenton
Founder and Executive director
Robert Daugherty Water for Food Institute
University of Nebraska
Roberto Lenton is a specialist in water, environment and international development with a civil engineering degree from the University of Buenos Aires and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from MIT. Lenton is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Board Chair of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). He earlier served as Chair of the Inspection Panel of the World Bank, senior advisor at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, director of the Sustainable Energy and Environment Division of UNDP, and Director General of IWMI.
Shiv Someswhar
Eliot Pernet
Public Sector Business Developer
AXA Climate
After starting his career in strategy consulting at Exton Consulting, Eliot has joined AXA Climate as public sector business developer. He works in partnership with the United Nations, the World Bank and major insurance players to build new insurance solutions against climate risks for vulnerable populations around the world. He is involved in a variety of projects worldwide in Vietnam, Philippines, Democratic Republic of Congo, Algeria and Mexico.
Eliot is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Rennes), holds the French "agrégation" in economics and management and is a Sciences Po graduate
