Sébastien Clerc has specialised in the infrastructure sector, and renewable energies in particular, for over 25 years. He also has proven expertise in change management and in company creation and development. Following 10 years in project financing at Crédit Lyonnais in Canada, then in New York, he returned to France in 1999 to join Ixis, then a subsidiary of Caisse des Dépôts, where he created and developed three activities: project financing consulting; management of infrastructure investment funds; and project financing. In 2007 he actively participated in the merger of Ixis and Natexis, notably by managing the fusion of the two banks' project financing teams in France and abroad. Sébastien Clerc was President of Natixis Environnement & Infrastructures (formerly IXIS Environnement & Infrastructures) from 2000 to 2011. From September 2009, he also managed Natixis Alternative Assets. He is a graduate of IEP Paris and the University of Paris X.