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Carine de Boissezon

Chief Sustainability Officer

EDF

Bio

Carine de Boissezon is EDF Chief Impact Officer since July 2019. As such, she deploys the Group’s corporate social responsibility strategy, translated today into the company’s Raison d’être: carbon neutrality, preservation of resources, well-being and development. During her 5 years as Chief Financial Officer of EDF’s International Division, she led the full integration of finance and sustainability notably with the financing of the Nachtigal hydropower plant in Cameroon, which will represent 30% of the country’s production, and whose innovative financing was recognised in 2018 with the «PFI Global Multilateral Deal of the Year» award. Previously, Carine de Boissezon served as Investors & Markets Director and spearheaded the launch of EDF’s first “Green Bond”* in 2013. These bonds today amount to close to 7 billion euros. In addition to her operational functions, Carine de Boissezon is a director of EDF Renewables and Luminus. Outside EDF, she is a member of the Supervisory Board and Chairwoman of the Audit Committee of GEODIS (Paris, logistics company) and an expert member of the Climate Committee of BPI France (French public Investment bank). Carine de Boissezon spent 11 years at Morgan Stanley, first as a research analyst and then as Executive Director, head of specialist sales in the utilities and renewables sector. She graduated from ESCP Business School (Paris). In 2021 Carine de Boissezon was awarded the Légion d’honneur and in 2017 she received the «Leading Women Award» from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. She is married and the mother of 4.