The Paris Roundtable 21 June 2019 Biographies of Participants Supported by With special thanks to Banque de France | Paris Peace Forum and hospitality provided by Australian High Commission, London | Australian Embassy, Paris Mr Daniel ARLAUD Former Chief Executive Officer, Villepin International Ltd Daniel Arlaud is historian and advisor on international relations. After a PhD in European History, and being engaged in research and teaching in French and American universities, he was CEO of the advisory firm Villepin International, founded by former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin. Mr Bertrand BADRÉ CEO, Blue Orange Capital Bertrand Badré is CEO and Founder of Blue served in the French Ministry of Finance where he Orange Capital, an investment fund with led a number of control, audit, and consultancy the objectives to finance the Sustainable missions for the French National Audit Office. Development Goals with market level financial returns. He is chair of the Global Future Council on International Governance, Public-Private Previously, Mr. Badré was Managing Director of Cooperation and Sustainable Development and the World Bank Group and Chief Financial Officer. an advisor for the World Economic Forum. Prior to joining the World Bank Group in 2013, Bertrand was the group chief financial officer at He is the chair of the Audit Committes of FIA Société Générale. (Federation of International Automotive) and of WealthSimple, a leading Canadian Fintech. He is He also served as group chief financial officer of a board member of GETLINK (Eurotunnel). Crédit Agricole from 2007 to 2011. Between 2004 and 2007, Bertrand was a managing director of He just published “Can finance save the world? Lazard in Paris. In 2003, he was invited to join How to regain control over money to to save President Jacques Chirac’s diplomatic team and common good” and reference to own Global was closely involved in the preparation of the G-8 Foundation work. summit in Evian. In that capacity, he served as the president’s deputy personal representative Bertrand is a graduate of ENA (Ecole Nationale for Africa and as a spokesman for the working d’Administration) and Institut d’Etudes Politiques group on new international financial contributions de Paris. He also studied history at Paris IV to fight poverty and fund development, which University (La Sorbonne), and graduated from produced the Landau Report. HEC (Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Paris) business school. In 2002, he was a member of the World Panel on Financing Water Infrastructure chaired by Michel Camdessus. In 1999 Badré joined Lazard, in London and New York. From 1995 to 1999, he 2 Copyright© 2019 The Global Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Ms Romina BOARINI Senior Advisor and Coordinator of the Inclusive Growth Initiative, OECD In this capacity Ms Boarini advises the OECD and the project on Business and Well-Being. In her Secretary-General and the Chief of Staff on previous roles she was working as an economist Inclusive Growth issues. She heads the OECD the in both the Economics Department and in the Inclusive Growth (IG) Initiative, the largest OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate, horizontal programme involving more than 10 carrying out research on structural issues as well OECD Directorates, and she is in charge of the as country-specific policy analysis. Business for Inclusive Growth Platform. Before joining the Office of the Secretary-General, Romina Before joining the OECD in 2005, Ms. Boarini was has worked as Deputy Head of the Well-Being a post-doctoral fellow in Sustainable Development Division of the Statistics Directorate and the Head (Chaire EDF-Ecole Polytechnique) and worked as a of the Well-Being and Progress Section, where she consultant to the French Ministry of Social Affairs. was responsible for OECD Better Life Initiative, Ms. Boarini, an Italian national, holds a PhD in the statistical pillar of the OECD Inclusive Growth Economics from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) Initiative and the OECD Pilot Study on SDGs. She and her Research Interests include: Well-being, also led the Statistics Directorate’s contributions Poverty, Education and Behavioural Economics. to SDGs-related National Development Strategies Mr Dennis BRACY CEO, US-China Clean Energy Forum Dennis Bracy counts himself fortunate to hold two Combining a long-time commitment to fascinating jobs simultaneously: 1) heading Avatar strengthening US-China relations and a passion Studios, a media production company in the US, for finding solutions to global energy and and 2) spearheading the team organising the US- environmental issues, Bracy has led the US team China Clean Energy Forum. for the US-China Clean Energy Forum (www. cleanenergyforum.org) since the inception of the As Chairman of Avatar Studios (www.avatar- organisation in 2007. studios.com), he heads a company that produces television programs, videos and websites for Over the past 20 years, he has served as a clients around the world. In the 1990s, Bracy key advisor to CEOs, Senators, Governors and led the team that developed (for Microsoft) the Members of Congress and is considered a leading first prime-time television series co-produced by strategist on public affairs issues. foreigners in China (My Computer Family) and he continues to produce several documentaries and His previous professional positions include videos every year. president of Hill & Knowlton Technology, vice president of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation, and press secretary for the Watergate trials. Copyright© 2019 The Global Foundation. All Rights Reserved. 3 Ms Cristina BRUCE Head of International Relations, Anglo American Cristina Bruce is a Government Relations and expertise in Anglo American’s operations in Latin policy professional. She has experience in America as well as their work on climate change, assessing political risk, developing political gender and inclusion, the future of work and networks and stakeholder engagement, innovation. international advocacy and public affairs campaigns. Areas worked on include business Former roles have been as an account manager in development, political network/ influence international advocacy and business development development, and political assessment in the at Portland and at the British Foreign Office, in the Middle East, Europe, Southern Africa and Latin South America and Middle East teams. She was America. She has direct experience of working with Vice Chairman of Canning House, the UK-Latin the extractive, NGO, multilateral and governmental America think tank in the UK for six years. sectors. BSc in Politics from University of Bristol and an She is currently Head of International Relations at MSc in International Relations and History from Anglo American, a multinational mining company LSE. She lives in London and has two young headquartered in London. She has particular children. Mr James BUNN Media producer and individual member of the Global Foundation James Bunn was the founding CEO of the ground James has delivered initiatives with a particular breaking Fox Sports Australia and the former focus on international trade at scale across Chairman of TXA (the technology arm of Channels sectors including sports; not for profit; education; 7, 9 & 10) where he delivered the world’s membership organisations; broadcasting / largest network digitisation project. He Chaired the telecommunications; property / real estate; pre-Netflix Channel Networks streaming technology/engineering; construction; venture with France Telecom in the UK and manufacturing / food processing; digital media launched the Digicel Play platform (ex-Dublin) production; aged and child care; be that locally, across 18 Pacific countries. nationally or globally. As a serial Chief Executive, Director and James presently divides his time between Sydney Management Consultant / Advisor he has and London, and travels frequently to the Asia delivered strategic leadership in sectors dealing Pacific, EMEA region and the USA. with specific operational challenges or embedding transformational change in the face of disruption. 4 Copyright© 2019 The Global Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Mr Pratik DESAI Strategic Engagement Lead, World Benchmarking Alliance Ambassador Pratik Desai leads strategic engagement efforts The White House, and the Council on Foreign for the WBA, working to grow and strengthen Relations. A native of Gweru, Zimbabwe, Pratik is a a diverse, balanced, and inclusive community graduate of Boston University, where he earned a of global allies and partners who believe in and B.A. in international relations and political science. understand the potential of benchmarks to drive He is passionate about the power of cross-sector transformative change. Previously, he managed partnerships and strongly believes that business private sector engagement and policy efforts has a critical role to play in advancing progress on for the United Nations Foundation and held the Sustainable Development Goals. positions in program development, operations, and communications and outreach with TechnoServe, Mr Alexandre ESCORIA Acting Head, Centre d’Analyse, de Prèvision et de Stratègie, the French Policy Planning Staff Alexandre Escorcia is a French career diplomat first secretary in charge of defence and security with almost 15 years’ experience in political- issues. He then served as an advisor to French military and security issues. He joined the French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on security Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2005 as a desk