Who really decides in the power sector, and with what means? That question runs through everything I do, in Taiwan as much as in Central Africa or in a French metropolitan area. Eighteen years in renewable electricity, twelve years in elected office in Lyon, teaching since 2010. Associate fellow at the Fondation Jean-Jaurès.
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I will be speaking alongside Kuan-Shen Chiang, from Taipower’s Department of Fuels.
28th France–Taiwan Economic Cooperation Conference
Organised by MEDEF International and CIECA.
Cercle de l’Union interalliée, Paris
11:10–11:25 · in English (Paris time)
Op-ed in CommonWealth Magazine, 16 September 2026, following the 28th Taiwan-France Economic Cooperation Conference in Paris: tying public support for AI projects to what they contribute to the power grid.
Contribution in Lyon Mag, 13 September 2026: what the data-centre projects in Dardilly and Vénissieux bring to the area, and how to move from announcements to verifiable commitments.
Op-ed in Défis Actuels (Cameroon), 9 September 2026: making a tariff adjustment acceptable by tying it to measurable gains in grid reliability.
Energy and geopolitics are treated as expert territory. My work is to make them readable and usable: in front of students, for a newsroom on deadline, or for an executive team that has to decide.
That reading comes from practice first: eighteen years in renewable electricity, twelve years in elected office in the City and then the Metropolitan area of Lyon. Markets, grids, public decision-making, I practised them before teaching them.
An associate fellow at the Fondation Jean-Jaurès, I publish in specialised journals and in the press, in France and abroad. What I write about: African power systems, oil geopolitics, Taiwan's energy sovereignty, city diplomacy.
I have taught since 2010, in business schools, universities and executive education. Around 180 hours a year, in French, English and Spanish. The institutions are listed below; the courses change from one year to the next.
This perspective was built in the field as much as in the classroom: Cameroon, Cambodia, Ukraine, Taiwan. In July 2026, a mission in Yaoundé on electricity sector reform, and a lecture at IRIC right after.
I run these in parallel because they answer one another. What you see in the field ends up in a lecture, then in an article. And the article usually makes you want to go back.
I do four things, and they hold together. How electricity gets produced, who holds the grids, what that weighs in a balance of power: these take a long time to understand. You have to read them, go and see them, teach them, and only then write them.
Lectures at business schools and universities, training for executives and elected officials, keynotes. Energy markets, the energy transition, geopolitics, public communications.
Analysis and op-eds in the French and international press, think-tank papers, radio and television commentary. This is where I test what I think I have understood.
Short assignments for institutions and organizations: sector diagnosis, scoping papers, stakeholder consultation, institutional and crisis communications. The principle never changes: start from their own files.
Consulting →I am an associate fellow at the Fondation Jean-Jaurès, and I carry out research on the governance of power systems alongside it. This is the slow part, the one that takes years.
Research →I design and deliver training for audiences that start from very different places: business school students, senior executives, elected officials, public servants. The content changes every time. The method does not: start from their files, show how a power system actually gets decided, and leave them something they can use the next day.
Organizations I train for
Institutions I have taught at since 2010, at various times and for varying durations.
Scheduled for 2026-2027: École Centrale de Lyon, INSA Lyon.
For training, a conference, a media appearance or a collaboration: write to me by email or through the form.