Executive Committee

Founder of Droit et Croissance/Rules for Growth Institute, Sophie Vermeille is a corporate and restructuring attorney with the Paris courts. Speaker and researcher with the legal economic laboratory at the University of Paris II, Pantheon-Assas, her research chiefly concerns the economy of insolvencies. She has been invited to teach bankruptcy law in various Parisian establishments, including the Sciences Po...

Interim president of the Rules for Growth Institute, graduate of HEC (1971) and the Faculté de Droit (law school) (1972) Bernard Desolneux began his career by developing legal databases that were amongst the first on the French market. Bernard Desolneux created and developed a legal publishing company acquired by the Thomson Reuters group. Up until his decision to retire...

Vice President of Droit & Croissance, he is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, and holder of a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Economics professor at New York University and the Paris School of Economics. Between June 2012 and August 2013, he was Economic Advisor to the French Ministry of Finance. Administrator of the Europanova...

Vice President of the Rules for Growth Institute, he is an assistant professor at the Columbia Business School. Prior to this, he was assistant professor at the School of Business and Management of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In 2015 he received his Ph.D from HEC Paris in management sciences. He studied at the École Normale...

General Secretary of the Rules for Growth Institute, François Vannesson began his career at Gide Loyrette Nouel before joining the AXA Group where, after having been legal head of the products and distribution of AXA Partners, he now leads the legal & compliance department of AXA Global Parametrics. He specializes in insurance and reinsurance consulting and litigation, as well...

Treasurer of the Rules for Growth Institute, Ahmed Guénaoui is advisor to the general management of a large multinational in the energy sector. He began his career at the Ministry of Economy and Finance where he was involved in the design and implementation of public policies promoting innovation at the General Directorate of Enterprises before joining the service for...

Yann Coatanlem began his career at the Salomon Brothers investment bank before joining Citigroup where he currently heads a quantitative research department in New York. He is in this regard a member of several committees (Basel II/III Executive Securitization Steering Committee, Counterparty Credit Risk Steering Committee, Non-Centrally Cleared Derivatives Committee, Regulatory & Risk Management Policy Committee, Model Validation Review...

Delphine d’Amarzit is the deputy managing director of Orange Bank since June 2016, after having been head of the service for financing the economy with the French Treasury Department from 2013 to 2015, followed by secretary general of the Canal+ group. Up until then Delphine d’Amarzit had consecrated the greater part of her career within the Ministry of Finance...

Benjamin Fremaux specializes in mergers and acquisitions advisory in the industrial, energy and infrastructure sectors and is Managing Director at Messier Maris & Associés. After graduating from Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines, Benjamin was head of the industrial development and energy division of Drire Languedoc-Roussillon and task manager for the prefect of Languedoc-Roussillon (2006-2008). He joined the cabinet of...

Emmanuelle Mignon is an attorney and partner with the August & Debouzy firm within the public regulatory and environmental division. Graduate of the Ecole supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales (graduate management and business school) (1990) and the Sciences Po Paris (1992), she entered the Conseil d’Etat following her studies at ENA (valedictorian of the René Char class of...

Professor at the Sorbonne law faculty (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and associate professor of private law (2001). Founder and Director of the “financial law” Master of Research at the Sorbonne law faculty. Member of the Executive Committee of the “financial regulation” laboratory of excellence. Scientific director of the Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Financier (quarterly review of financial law)...

With an aggrégation in public law, Lucien Rapp is Professor at Toulouse-Capitole University where he heads the IDET-Com, a laboratory specializing in the field of territorial law and the digital economy. He co-directs the Master 2 in Economics and Competition Law at the Toulouse School of Economics. He is the scientific director of the Space Institute for Research on...

Corporate Vice President of Capgemini, recently named Head of Group Commercial & Contract Management, advisor to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the group, founder of Women@Capgemini, Isabelle Roux- Chenu began her career in 1998 at Capgemini as General Counsel after having spent 15 years as an attorney at the Paris and New York Bars. She moreover co-founded...