Christophe, a French national, has over 18 years’ experience in the field of climate change and green growth, with a focus on project origination, financing and policy formulation. He joined GGGI in 2016 as Green Investment Specialist to contribute to the development and structuring of investments and funds in Asia, Africa and Middle East member countries, including Jordan. In 2020 he was appointed Deputy Country Representative for Lao PDR, where he has been managing one of the largest country teams at GGGI and overseeing the first revision of the Lao Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), the design of the National Green Industry Policy and the mobilization of USD 16 Million towards the acquisition of electric buses for the bus rapid transit system in Vientiane Capital. From January 2023, he is the GGGI Country Representative to Jordan, based at the Ministry of Environment in Amman.

Prior to joining GGGI, Christophe was the managing director of a pioneering private advisory firm active in the financing of greenhouse gas emission reductions projects in developing countries, under the Clean Development Mechanism. Among other, he led the UN registration of complex mitigation projects in the Middle East, such as the Associated Gas Recovery and Utilization at Block 9 in Oman, and the Madinah Landfill Gas Capture Project in Saudi Arabia.

Through his career Christophe has built up expertise in low carbon and climate resilient technologies, including renewable energy, energy efficiency, e-mobility, municipal solid waste, wastewater, flood prevention and forestry carbon sequestration. He was also a key contributor to the Chad’s Nationally Determined Contribution to the Paris Agreement.

Christophe holds an MSc degree in Sustainable Urban Development from the University of Oxford, and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from ESSEC Business School in Paris.