AGENDA 

Anne-Christine Champion is Co-Head of Global Banking & Investor Solutions and a member of the Group Executive Committee, having been appointed 24 May 2023. Anne-Christine Champion began her career in 2002 in the financial engineering department at Natixis where she provided advisory and arrangement services for the infrastructure sector. In 2012, she became Global Head of advisory activities and infrastructure & project financing. In 2016, Anne-Christine Champion was then appointed Global Head of the Corporate & Investment Bank’s newly created distribution (primary, secondary, direct and synthetic) and portfolio management business. In 2019, she became Global Head of Real Assets, in charge of origination in the energy, infrastructure, real estate and aviation sectors, within the Corporate & Investment Bank. Anne-Christine was previously, from 2020, Co-Head of Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking and member of the Senior Management Committee of Natixis. Anne-Christine Champion is a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, of the Stanford Executive Program and of the Collège des Ingénieurs.

Ilya Polyakov is Deputy Head of Global Banking and Advisory since May 2023. Ilya Polyakov joined the Corporate & Investment Banking activities of Societe Generale in 2001. He was appointed global Co-Head of Metals & Mining within the Natural Resources and Energy Department in 2011 in addition to his responsibilities as Senior Banker in charge of global relationship and strategic advisory for Metals & Mining clients in Russia/CIS region. He joined Rosbank in 2012 as Head of its Corporate Block as well as Head of Corporate & Investment Banking for Russia/CIS region. In September 2016, Ilya became First Deputy CEO of Rosbank in charge of all Wholesale banking activities for the Group in Russia before being appointed as CEO and Chairman of Rosbank ‘s management board in April 2018 as well as Chief Country Officer for Russia/CIS for the Group’s corporate and investment banking activities. Ilya Polyakov has been advisor to the Group’s General Management since beginning of 2023. Ilya Polyakov graduated from HEC School of Management in Paris and from Moscow University of International Relations (MGIMO).

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.

Kokou Agbo-Bloua joined SG CIB in 2014 as Global Head of Engineering for Global Equity Flow (GEF) before taking the leadership of the Flow Strategy & Solutions team within Global Markets Financial Engineering. In June 2020 he was appointed Global Head of Economics, Cross-Asset & Quant Research, in addition to his role as Head of Flow Strategy & Solutions. Previously, he was Head of Equity & Derivative Strategy Europe at BNPP in London where he was responsible for European fundamental equity strategy, derivatives parameters, global cross-asset themes and convertible bonds strategy. Prior to this, he started his career on the trading side as a portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs Principal Strategies (GSPS) and then a derivatives trader at JP Morgan. Born in Togo and educated in China, where he spent 12 years of his life, Kokou Agbo-Bloua graduated with an MSc in Management from HEC School of Management in Paris in 2002 and completed his post-graduate studies in Finance at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

Lénaïg Trénaux has 20 years of experience in the natural resources sector. She joined Société Générale’s Natural Resources and Infrastructure group in 2006 in London after holding various positions in the natural resources teams of Natixis and BNP Paribas in Paris, New York and London. She became co-head of the EMEA Metals and Mining Finance team in 2011 and moved to New York in 2016 where she was Regional Head of the Metals Mining and Industries Finance team for the Americas region. In this position, she contributed to shifting the business line focus towards sustainability and energy transition. Lénaïg is a graduate of EDHEC business school.

Fouad Farah joined Societe Generale in 1999 as a quant/trader in the Arbitrage Equity/Debt Group, and in 2000 he joined the Credit Derivatives Trading team in Paris. In 2005, he was promoted to Head of Risk Management, Credit Derivatives, based in London; and from 2006 to 2009 he served as Global Head of Exotic Credit Trading. In 2009, he was named to lead the Special Situations Trading Group, while also assuming the roles of Global Head of Exotic Credit Trading and Head of U.S. Credit Trading. From 2012 through 2014, he was Global Head of the Securitized Products Group. Following the creation of the Asset-Backed Products Group in 2015, he initially held the role of Global Head of Trading followed by Global Deputy Head and Head of the Asset-Backed Products Group in the U.S. In 2021, Fouad was named Head of the Credit and Structured Financing, and Head of Fixed Income, Americas in 2022. In 2023 he was named Head of Global Markets, Americas. Fouad Farah holds a diploma from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris.

Hacina Py joined Societe Generale in 1995 and has developed as a seasoned banker through various positions, both in structured finance and in corporate roles. Hacina was appointed Global Head of Export Finance in 2015. She led the transformation of the business line with a strong sustainability focus and took over the position of Head of Impact Finance Solutions in 2019. Hacina Py graduated from the EM Strasbourg business school and studied finance at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh.