A graduate of HEC Paris and a former student of ENA, Xavier Girre began his career at the French Cour des comptes. In 1999 he joined Veolia Environnement as Group Risk and Audit Director, then Deputy CEO and Chief Financial Officer of Veolia Transport and Veolia Propreté. In 2011, he continued his career at La Poste, where he became Chief Financial Officer. He joined the EDF Group in 2015 as Group Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Committee, and, as of 2024, he was Group Senior Executive Vice President in charge of Performance, Impact, Investment and Finance Directorate. On July 1st, 2025, Xavier Girre was appointed Chief Executive Officer of SUEZ. Xavier Girre is a Board member and Chairman of the Audit and Risks Committee of FDJ United and Chairman of the Paris Europlace Corporate College. Xavier Girre is an Officer of the National Order of Merit.

Born in 1975, Isabelle Spiegel is a graduate with an engineering degree from the École des Mines de Douai and the Technische Universität Berlin. She began her career at a Chamber of Commerce and Industry, before moving on to provide consultancy services for almost 15 years to PricewaterhouseCoopers clients on Corporate Social Responsibility. She spent two years in China and directed international task forces preparing publications by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. In 2015, she went on to Arcadis to head up its Environment activities in France and oversee the development of the Sustainable Development business for Arcadis’s Europe, United Kingdom and Middle East region. Isabelle joined VINCI SA in August 2019 where she was appointed Environment Director of VINCI and will be named to the VINCI Executive Committee in April 2022.

Tobias Grimm has been Munich Re’s Chief Climate Scientist since 2025 and has been heading Climate Advisory and Natcat Data since 2023. His team is responsible for developing climate-related solutions and the NatCat database, one of the largest for natural catastrophe losses worldwide. Tobias has a long track record as Climate Expert at Munich Re. Before his current role, he was based in Sydney from 2020 until 2023, where he was the local climate expert for Munich Re Australia, developing greentech insurance solutions and supporting a banking project. For many years, he was a senior project manager and deputy to Munich Re's chief climate scientist, playing a leading role in a wide range of projects related to natural hazards, climate change and the energy transition. Tobias has been with Munich Re since January 2005. He holds a Master’s degree in geography and applied meteorology from the LMU – University of Munich. Before joining Munich Re, he worked for three years as a weather expert at a private weather service provider.

Irene Rummelhoff has since 2018 served as EVP of Marketing, Midstream and Processing (MMP) at Equinor ASA and has been a member of the CEC since 2015. With more than 4200 employees worldwide, she has the responsibility for flow assurance, processing, and marketing of all Equinor's products, including marketing of the Norwegian State's natural gas and crude of the Norwegian continental shelf. The responsibility includes development of the company's hydrogen and CCS value chains. Between 2015 and 2018 she served as the EVP for Equinor’s New Energy Solutions. In that context, she was instrumental in Equinor’s market-leading transition into the renewable energy field, ahead of all the other oil majors. She was tasked with forming a new division and driving the development of the Equinor’s strategy in renewable and alternative energy solutions, whereby she pushed for offshore wind and low carbon solutions such as carbon capture and storage and other related technologies, including hydrogen development. From 2014 to 2022, Ms. Rummelhoff was a member and later Deputy Chair (2016) of the Board of Directors of Norsk hydro, and as of March 2022 she is a member of the Board of Directors of Airbus.

Girish Sankar joined EQT in 2020, and has worked on investments in data centers as well as energy transition related businesses. Prior to joining EQT Partners, Girish worked in private equity at Advent International in the TMT team based in London, UK. Prior to Advent, Girish worked as a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company in New York. Girish holds an MBA from the Wharton School, and an MA in International Studies from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania