Thought Leaders
Our network of past and present FDI Control Forum contributors —
experts, thought leaders and industry drivers shaping the future of global investment.
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Pascale Accaoui Lorfing
Affiliate Professor - ESCP Business School
PhD in International Law & Investment Contracts -
Géraline Amiel
Senior Managing Director
FTI Consulting -
Ombline Ancelin
Partner, Head of Competition, Simmons & Simmons
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Mathias Audit
Law Professor at Sorbonne Law School
Partner,
Audit Duprey Fekl -
Olivier Becht
Former Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade,
Economic Attractiveness and French Nationals Abroad (2022-2024), current Député du Haut-Rhin -
Orion Berg
Partner - Leading coordinator of global FDI reviews outside the US White & Case LLP
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Pierre Berlioz
Professor of Law
Université Paris Cité
Former Director, UIMM -
Bruno Bezard
Managing Partner,
Cathay Capital Private Equity -
Pascal Bine
Of Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom -
Joachim Bitterlich
Former diplomat
Affiliate Professor, ESCP Business School -
Martin Bresson
Public Affairs Director,
Invest Europe -
Josh Cameron
Managing Director,
FTI Consulting -
Claire Campbell
Special Counsel
PiperAlderman - ICG Fellow -
Joffrey Célestin Urbain
Head of the Strategic Information &
Economic Security Department (SISSE) -
Etienne Chantrel
Partner, Eight Advisory
Former Head of the Merger Department, French Competition Authority (Autorité de la concurrence) -
Wissam Charbel
Partner, Farallon Capital Management
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Grégoire Chauvière Le Drian
Head of EIB Group Office, France chez European Investment Bank (EIB)
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Arnaud de Cheffontaines
Managing Director
FTI Consulting -
David Chekroun
Co-Founder, FDI Control
Professor of Business Law,
ESCP Business School -
Pierre-Olivier Chotard
Secrétaire Général du CIRI, sous-directeur adjoint en charge du financement
des entreprises -
Sandrine Clavel
Professor of law, Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ
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Michael S. Considine
CFIUS, Assistant Secretary for Foreign Investment at the Department of Energy, United States of America
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Alexandre Courbon
Managing Director,
Head of M&A France, HSBC -
Mélanie d'Anglejan-Chatillon
Group Senior Legal Antitrust Counsel
Novartis -
Alex Deane
Senior Managing Director (Partner),
Head of UK Public Affairs
FTI Consulting -
Pierre-Antoine Degrolard
Counsel M&A/Corporate
Gide Loyrette Nouel -
Pascal Dupeyrat
Strategic Advisor
Relians -
Renaud Dutreil
Former Minister, Senior Adviser,
FTI Consulting -
Thomas Ernoult
Head of the Unit for Foreign Investment Screening at the French Treasury
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Duncan Fairgrieve
Professor of Comparative Law,
Université Paris-Dauphine -
Nicoletta Giordani
Principal Director of Global Investment
and Economic Security (GIES), US Office
of the Secretary of Defense -
Simonetta Giordano
Corporate Partner,
Simmons & Simmons -
Lars Goubet-Wolff
FDI Control Forum Conselor, Chief of Staff to the Executive Vice-President & Dean of ESCP
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Christine Graham
Special Counsel - Antitrust and
Competition, Cooley -
Guillaume Granier
Senior Managing Director,
FTI Consulting -
Marina Guérassimova
Co-Founder, FDI Control
Chief Editor, Fusions & Acquisitions Magazine -
Steffen Hindelang
Professor Int'l Investment & Trade Law Uppsala University | ICSID arbitrator | Legal expert advisor on investment disputes and regulation |
Director CELIS Institute -
Farhad Jalinous
Partner - Global Head of FDI Reviews & US National Security/CFIUS Practice,
White & Case LLP -
Sophie Javary
Vice-Chairman CIB EMEA,
BNP Paribas -
Clotilde Jolivet
Former Head of Government &
Public Affairs, Sanofi -
Arnaud Joubert
Partner - Debt Advisory & Restructuring
Rothschild & Co -
Ioannis Kokkoris
Professor of Competition Law and Economics, Director of Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
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Zornitsa Kutlina-Dimitrova
Senior Analyst of Tech & Security, FDI Screening Unit at DG TRADE -
European Commission -
Marie-Anne Lavergne
Former Head of the Office in Charge of Controlling Foreign Investment at the French Treasury Department (2020-2023), current Financial Services and International Economic Affairs Advisor, French Prime Minister’s Office
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Gilles Lebreton
Partner
Clifford Chance -
Maxime Lefebvre
Former Ambassador, Professor of
International relations, ESCP Business School -
Jessica Lehman
Foreign Direct Investment Senior Advisor,
U.S. Department of Energy -
Gauthier Le Milon
Head of M&A France, Belgium & Luxembourg
Barclays -
Damien Levie
Head of Technology & Security, FDI Screening Unit, Directorate General for Trade,
European Commission -
Alexandre Loupy
University Professor-Hospital Practitioner
(PU-PH) at Necker Hospital, Paris,
Head of INSERM unit Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation; Adjunct Professor Transplant Department,
Cedars Sinai L.A,USA -
Julien Lestrade
Managing Director, Lazard
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Pablo López-Alvarez
Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting
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Nicolas Machtou
Directeur de programme nouveau
nucléaire, EDF -
Gregory Mailly
Executive Director, J.P. Morgan
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Reza Malekzadeh
General Partner, Partech
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Bertrand Milhiet
Head of M&A and Company Development, Airbus Helicopters
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Nicolas Naillon
Managing Director - Head Healthcare
EMEA at Nomura -
Vincent Netter
Partner, Jeantet
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Anne-Sophie Noury
Partner, Head of Restructuring,
White & Case LLP -
Dr Jérôme Philippe
Partner, Freshfields
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Delphine Prioux
Legal Manager, Individual Customers
Division, EDF -
Cosme Julien Madoni
Senior Director, FTI Consulting
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Gilles Pillet
Professor of Business Law,
ESCP Business School -
Brian Reissaus
Senior Advisor of National Security, Freshfields
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Investment Security Operations, USA Department of Treasury, former CFIUS Chair -
Dr Frank Röhling
Partner, Freshfields
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Olivier Taffin de Tilques
Group Head of Legal Corporate Finance and M&A, SCOR SE
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Vincenzo Salvatore
Corporate Partner, Simmons & Simmons
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Edmond Schlumberger
Professeur de Droit privé - Université Paris 1 - Ecole de Droit de la Sorbonne -
Conseil scientifique Gide -
Hubert Segain
Partner, Co-Head of Corporate, Linklaters
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Joy Sioufi
Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey
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Andrew Shagrin
Professor of Business Law,
ESCP Business School -
Dimitri Slobodenjuk
Partner, Antitrust, Global Head of FDI,
Clifford Chance Düsseldorf -
Vincent Smith
Professor of Business Law,
ESCP Business School -
Irina Von Wiese
Lawyer, Academic, former MEP and
Councillor in the London Borough
of Southwark -
Stephen Walters
Senior Vice President and Group General Counsel, Constellium
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Friederike Wenkel
Policy Officer at the German Federal
Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), Germany -
Emily Xueref-Poviac
FDI & Antitrust Lawyer
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Florent Barbu
Counsel, Simmons & Simmons
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Marion Chulia
Case Handler, Technology & Security, FDI Screening Unit at the Directorate General for Trade, European Commission
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Margaret Kyle
Professor of Economics, MINES ParisTech
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Mathias Forteau
Professor of Public Law, University Paris Nanterre
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Jonathan Marsh
General Counsel, Art Consortium - Former Vice President and International General Counsel, TotalEnergies
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Alexis Coskun
Director, FGS Global
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Charles-Antoine Guelluy
Partner, Latham & Watkins
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Geneviève Helleringer
Professor of Law, Oxford University & ESSEC Business School
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Yarik Kryvoi
Professor of Law - Director of the Investment Treaty Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law -
Of Counsel, Keidan Harrison - Co-Chair, Expert Group on Corruption in the Context of Foreign Direct Investments, United Nations -
Sébastien Ouvry
Director — Investment Legal
Eurazeo -
Les P. Carnegie
Partner, Co-lead of CFIUS and National Security Practice & Co-lead of Export Controls and Sanctions Practice
Latham & Watkins (Washington) -
Xavier Mas
Head of Communications and Public Relations France — Latham & Watkins (Paris)
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Olivier Job
Legal Director — PAI Partners (Paris)
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Ana Muñoz Garcia
Senior Policy Advisor
Deputy Directorate for Foreign Investment
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business of Spain -
John Davies
Senior Advisor
Brunswick Group -
New List ItemJose Antonio Zamora de L'Hôtellerie-Fallois
General Sub-Directorate
Foreign Investments
Spanish State Secretariat for Trade -
Christoph Heusgen
Former German Ambassador to
the United Nations
Senior Advisor
FGS Global -
Vanessa Strauss-Kahn
Professor of Economics
ESCP Business School -
Arnaud de Nanteuil
Professor of Law
Université Paris Est Créteil -
Wesley Lainé
Associate
Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom -
Orion Berg
Partner - Leading coordinator of global FDI reviews outside the US
White & Case LLP -
Fanny Mahler
Partner, Public Law / Energy & Infrastructure
Linklaters (Paris) -
Florentine Kessler-Grobe
Head of Unit
Foreign Investment Screening
German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action -
Anna Mitchell
Antitrust & Foreign Investment Partner
Linklaters (London) -
David López
Partner, M&A and FDI Law
Uría Menéndez -
Marc Lordonnois
Partner
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP -
Céline Domenget-Morin
Partner, Restructuring
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP -
Nicolas Bouvier
Partner
Brunswick Group -
Gaël Couturier
Partner
FHB -
Gilles Cuniberti
Professor of Private International & Comparative Law
University of Luxembourg -
Lucy Winnington-Ingram
Partner
Reed Smith -
Marc Scheer
Economic Security Advisor
Minister’s Office
Luxembourg Ministry of Economy -
Dr Hélène Van Lith
Secretary - Associate Professor
ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR - Paris Dauphine University -
Claire Thomas-Daoulas
Partner
Brunswick Group -
Gustave Gauquelin
Head of the Strategic Information and Economic Security Department France (SISSE)
Direction Générale des Entreprises -
Michael Considine
Senior Advisor (former CFIUS)
FGS Global -
Thomas Argall
Director — Investment Review
United States Department of Defence -
Jarlath Pratt
Managing Director & Assistant General Counsel
GIC -
Jared Hollett
Practice Area Lead, International Trade Compliance
Saudi Aramco -
François Rosenfeld
Partner, Innovation Team
Mérieux Equity Partners -
Aiste Slezeviciute
Head of FDI Screening Sector
European Commission -
Emmanuelle Vaudoyer
General Counsel & Board Secretary
Imerys -
Eric Thomas
General Counsel
Former Lagardère Group,
EADS (Airbus), Thales and EDF -
Rt.Hon. Sir Vince Cable
Economist — Former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Skills and Trade. — Former Leader of Liberal Democrat Party (UK)
Professor in Practice LSE
Chair of Green Energy Companies -
Matthias Fekl
Former French Minister for the Interior & Administrative Judge
Audit Duprey Fekl -
Paddy McGuinness
Senior Advisor
Brunswick Group -
Dr Sara Razai
Research Fellow and International Projects Lead
British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) -
Paul Csiszár
Senior Advisor
Brunswick Group -
Guillaume Nataf
Partner
Baker & McKenzie
(Paris) -
Yas Banifatemi
Founding Partner — Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes
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Caroline Ruellan
Présidente - Board Services, Governance Advisory, Stakeholder Relationship
SONJ CONSEIL -
Aimen Mir
Partner
Freshfields -
Guillaume Primot
Secrétaire Général
CIRI