Lawyer-trained senior executive. Twenty years at the intersection of industrial decarbonization, regulatory governance, sustainable finance, and non-technical risk.
I have spent two decades inside energy utilities, industry, and international organizations — interfacing with multilateral development institutions and building the governance structures, financial instruments, and stakeholder architectures that make large-scale sustainability operational. I work at the point where regulation, capital allocation, and industrial reality come together.
Based in Belgium. Operating in Spanish, Italian, English, and French.
02 — Edge
Four Operating Domains
I convert institutional and regulatory complexity into structures that protect capital, secure operational continuity, and survive external audit.
01
Regulatory Governance & Law
I design compliance architectures for multinational groups where sustainability reporting carries the same legal exposure as financial disclosure. My work covers CSRD/ESRS, EU Taxonomy alignment, and data governance models built for external assurance.
02
Industrial Decarbonization
I build decarbonization strategies grounded in physical asset optimization — not theoretical roadmaps. That includes battery storage and on-site generation architectures, fleet emission governance frameworks, Scope 3 value chain programs negotiated with global transport carriers, and carbon reporting benchmarking across major cloud and ICT providers.
03
Sustainable Finance & Carbon Markets
I directed carbon asset origination through funds structured by the World Bank and IFC — five multilateral instruments with combined capital commitments exceeding €100 million — and built the risk frameworks required to hedge those positions within trading and portfolio management operations. I was part of the working group that delivered the technical sustainability criteria behind a major European Green Bond issuance.
04
Non-Technical Risk & Social Licence
I secured the social licence to operate for contested infrastructure, deployed on the ground to direct the social and labour dimensions of coal plant decommissioning in Chile and Australia. Across Latin America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania, I built stakeholder engagement capability inside project teams, local partners, and government counterparties — including on gas pipelines in Mexico and Brazil and nuclear development in Turkey — and trained more than 500 project managers worldwide on social due diligence.
03 — Reality
How I Operate
Data & Audit Rigor
I treat sustainability data with the same discipline as financial data. I build automated data pipelines, enforce strict data hierarchies that prioritize physical measurement over financial proxies, and design staging protocols for privacy, validation, and standardization. If it cannot survive an external auditor, it does not enter the system.
Commercial Traction
Sustainability without a commercial logic is a cost center. I integrate ESG into sales processes, supply chain negotiations, and M&A due diligence — turning compliance obligations into competitive positioning and revenue protection.
Digital Capability
I select and deploy carbon accounting platforms, apply AI and large language models to strategic analysis and legacy data remediation, and build the digital pipelines that connect operational data to audit-grade reporting frameworks.
Certifications: ISACA AI Governance (2026) · ISACA Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals, 2nd Edition (2026) · MIT Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy (2026)
04 — Frameworks
Frameworks
Four instruments I have built and deployed. Each converts a recurring class of problem into a repeatable decision structure.
01
Flexibility-First Energy Model
An investment architecture sequencing battery storage, on-site generation, grid capacity and load shifting to hedge energy market volatility before committing capital to fixed decarbonisation paths.
02
6-Step Data Hierarchy
A data governance protocol that ranks emissions inputs from physical measurement down to financial proxy, eliminating double-counting and producing carbon accounts that survive third-party assurance.
03
Investment Scoring Matrix
A screening framework applied by a global utility's executive committee to score the social and environmental risk of capital allocations across its project portfolio.
04
Reman Circularity Roadmap
A certification and taxonomy pathway mapping remanufacturing operations against the EU Taxonomy and product carbon footprint standards, converting circularity data into defensible commercial claims.
05 — Execution
Selected Mandates
Translating regulatory pressure and market volatility into operational architecture. The following represents recent execution across heavy industry and energy infrastructure.
01
Context: €1.7bn Global Industrial Group
Data Architecture & Audit Readiness
I directed the digital transformation of the non-financial reporting function to secure CSRD readiness across more than 50 legal entities. Moving away from manual data extraction, I oversaw the implementation of enterprise carbon accounting software integrated with scheduled extraction protocols pulling operational metrics directly from legacy ERP systems. I architected a strict "6-Step Data Hierarchy" prioritizing physical activity data over financial proxies to eliminate CapEx/OpEx double-counting. This automated pipeline drastically reduced compliance auditing hours and secured third-party pre-assurance for Scopes 1, 2, and 3 value chain emissions.
02
Context: Global Energy Utility
Social Licence & Capability Deployment
Tasked with managing the social dimensions of the energy transition, I deployed to the front lines of 1,600MW coal-fired power plant decommissionings in Chile and Australia, managing the labor and social transitions and securing the social licence required for responsible asset retirement. At the corporate level, I authored Group-wide Social Impact Assessment (SIA) guidelines and designed the CSR Investment Scoring Matrix used by the executive committee to evaluate global capital allocations. I was deployed across the portfolio to embed stakeholder engagement management into project teams, local partners, and government counterparties — regional delivery in the UAE, and project-level deployment for Mayakan (Mexico), TAG (Brazil), and Sinop (Turkey) — training more than 500 project managers worldwide.
03
Context: Global Energy Utility / Multilateral Finance
Sustainable Finance & Risk Hedging
I managed the origination of carbon credits through pioneering multilateral instruments, overseeing combined capital commitments exceeding €100 million. I negotiated terms of participation across the Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF), the Community Development Carbon Fund (CDCF), and IFC facilities. During periods of severe carbon market volatility, I managed the friction between private investors seeking contractual termination and sovereign institutions demanding social value preservation. I partnered with the Middle Office to develop the quantitative risk frameworks required to hedge these portfolios. I was subsequently part of the working group that delivered the technical sustainability criteria for an inaugural €2.5bn Green Bond.
04
Context: €1.7bn Global Industrial Group
Commercial Circularity & Taxonomy Alignment
I authored an "Integrated Certification and Taxonomy Strategy" that mapped internal remanufacturing operations directly against the EU Taxonomy. Utilizing methodologies including UL 3600, ISO 59040, and Product Carbon Footprints (PCF), I led a brand identity project that converted technical circular economy data into a defensible B2B commercial narrative. I executed A/B testing to validate client appetite for green products, successfully equipping commercial teams to win competitive tenders while systematically mitigating greenwashing exposure.
06 — Cooperation
Development Cooperation & Institutional Partnership
Before industrial sustainability, my work was development cooperation — and the two share one mechanic: using public instruments and institutional governance to move private capital toward public objectives. I connect European institutions, multilateral finance, and partner-country counterparts, and I bring the legal and diplomatic discipline that multilateral institutions require. Today I continue this work independently — advising UNIDO's Investment and Technology Promotion Office in Rome on project development and the design of capacity-building programmes for circular economy and EU Green Deal market access in partner countries, such as circular textiles in Ghana.
01
Investment Promotion & Industrial Cooperation
At UNIDO's Investment and Technology Promotion Office, I designed, staffed, and ran the Energy and Environment Programme — financed by the Italian Ministry for the Environment — promoting investment and industrial-cooperation agreements, technology transfer, and joint ventures between European and partner-country firms across Morocco, Egypt, and Tunisia. I served as the counterpart to the national Investment Promotion Units in Egypt and Jordan and directed a multicultural team based in Rome, Cairo, Rabat, and Tunis.
02
EU External Action & Private-Sector Development
I led the Office's participation in the EU AL-INVEST network for SME internationalization — an early model of using public instruments to mobilize private capital for public objectives. I drafted project documents and funding proposals for Member State approval, aligning diplomatic protocol with private-sector needs, and represented the Office in high-level engagements with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
03
Multilateral Finance & Resource Allocation
I originated carbon assets through funds structured by the World Bank and IFC — five multilateral instruments with combined capital commitments exceeding €100 million — negotiating terms of participation and building the frameworks to hedge them through periods of severe market volatility. As part of a corporate strategy team, I contributed to a five-year Medium-Term Plan influencing CAPEX allocation for critical infrastructure. I understand how investment committees operate and the discipline required to justify the use of common resources to sovereign and institutional stakeholders.
04
Institutional Governance & Multilateral Fluency
Development is, at its core, the management of transitions — and it holds only when capital, industry, and local legitimacy are aligned. Across strategic and conflict-prone field settings, I have secured the social licence that decides whether infrastructure is actually built and managed the friction between private investors and sovereign institutions. Trained as a lawyer and seasoned in multilateral environments, I bring governance discipline, resource-allocation rigor, and the diplomatic acuity to align diverse stakeholder interests across public institutions, multilateral finance, and partner-country counterparts.
07 — Reach
Multi-Jurisdictional Execution
I have held mandates or been deployed to field operations across Western Europe, Latin America, North America, Southeast Asia, North Africa, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. I have managed multicultural teams distributed across multiple countries and time zones — in corporate environments, multilateral institutions, and conflict-prone field settings.
08 — Engagement
Engagement
Open to interim and permanent executive mandates — Sustainability Director, Head of Sustainability, Chief Sustainability Officer, ESG Director — as well as advisory roles and board positions across industrial decarbonization, ESG governance, sustainable finance, and non-technical risk.
Available to discuss trends and the future of the sustainability practice.
References and detailed mandate documentation available on request.
