Supervisory Board

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...

Sophie is the founder of Droit & Croissance. Sophie Vermeille currently practices corporate, securities and restructuring law in the law firm she founded in Paris. (https://www.vermeille-avocats.com) She worked in the past for several international law firms (such as Clifford Chance, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Freshfields and DLA Piper). Sophie has an in-depth knowledge of US securities law, Chapter 11 and...

President of the Rules for Growth institute, Georges Ugeux is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Galileo Global Advisors (an investment bank specializing in cross-border advice and transactions, particularly to and from emerging countries). He is an Associate Professor at the Columbia University School of Law, where he convenes a seminar on International Banking and Finance. He is also...

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...

Secretary General for the Rule of Growth, Alessia Longo graduated in financial law at Sorbonne School of Law and in corporate law and finance at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is currently an associate of an American corporate law firm in Paris. Alessia is interested in the economic analysis of corporate/finance law, as well as in corporate...

Treasurer of Droit & Croissance, Gaëlle has been a member of the Institute since 2016. She also serves as Chief Operating Officer. Gaëlle has spent most of her career in communication functions (Clifford Chance office, France Télévisions, Patricia Goldman Communication agency, Ministries of Economy and Budget, ministerial offices, local authorities, sustainable development consulting firm). She holds a MASTER 2...

Graduate of Saint-Cyr French Military Academy, MSc in Mathematics & Decision Science, Ph.D. in Information Systems & Management (Paris-Dauphine University), Alain Bloch is Emeritus Professor at the French Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, where he was head of the Marketing & Negotiation Chair. He is also since 2004 an affiliate Faculty member (Entrepreneurship department) of HEC Paris School...

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...

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 in September 2015, Bernard Desolneux was managing director...

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...

Pierre-Henri Leroy, 72, is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris and of the Paris University Law School, an MBA Graduate from Columbia University in New York, is the founder and president of Proxinvest the first French proxy firm for investors. After national service with The French Industrial Development Agency in the United States, he joined the...

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 is the scientific director of the Space Institute for Research on Innovative Uses of Satellites, a corporate chair created in 2013 by the CNES, Airbus Defense &...

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...