Jérémie Pellet

Portrait of Jérémie Pellet

 

Jérémie Pellet joined Expertise France in December 2018. He was previously Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Agence Française de Développement (AFD), in charge of the agency's activities with local authorities, public enterprises, the private sector and NGOs, and coordinating strategy, communication, partnerships, research and innovation. He was Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Proparco, AFD Group's private sector subsidiary, and Chairman of its Investment Committee. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Expertise France and Bpifrance Financement. In 2009, Jérémie joined BNP Paribas as head of regulatory affairs for corporate and investment banking, with particular responsibility for implementing Basel 3, before joining the bank's Fixed Income department in 2012. He joined Manuel Valls on his arrival at Matignon in 2014 to oversee economic and financial issues, including the Macron law, the planned merger between AFD and CDC and the creation of Expertise France. A graduate of the Strasbourg Institute of Political Studies, he began his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before entering the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (promotion Léopold Sédar Senghor). On graduating, he joined the Ministry of Economy and Finance. After spending three years in the merger and aid control office of the General Directorate for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control, he joined CDC Entreprises (now Bpifrance Investissement), the private equity subsidiary of the Caisse des Dépôts Group, as Investment Director, where he managed a portfolio of investments in the South of France, Corsica, the French overseas departments and territories (DOM-TOM) and the Maghreb, relations with Proparco and joint private equity funds with AFD in overseas France.