2 to 4 July in Autrans
The speakers
Martin Hirsch has been Chairman of the Institut de l'Engagement since its creation in 2012. He holds a postgraduate diploma (DEA) in neurobiology and a master's degree in biochemistry. He is also a graduate of ENA and joined the Conseil d'Etat on graduating. In 2007, he was appointed Haut-Commissaire aux Solidarités Actives contre la Pauvreté (2007- 2010), then High Commissioner for Youth (2009-2010). He left the government in 2010 to become Chairman of the Civic Service Agency until November 2013, when he became Chief Executive of the AP-HP, a post he will hold until the end of June 2022. At the same time, he became actively involved in the fight against poverty and the promotion of solidarity, and held a number of voluntary positions. He was elected Chairman of Emmaüs France in 2002. He was also a member of the Halde Consultative Committee from 2006 to 2007, co-chairman of the "Enterprise and Poverty" Action Tank and of the Chair of the French Commission for Employment and Social Affairs. and Poverty" and of the Social Business Chair at HEC since 2011.
Born in Chêne-Bougeries, Switzerland, Léo Le Blé Jaques perfected his snowboarding skills at Le Grand-Bornand. He first practised giant slalom before specialising in snowboard cross. He honed his skills on the European Cup circuit, with his first podium finish in 2015 in Lenk. Pursuing a dual sporting and student project at Polytech Grenoble, he even became university world champion in 2017 in Shymbulak, Kazakhstan. As a student engineer, he plans to specialise in the design and development of sports equipment. In the World Cup, he rose through the ranks before suffering a serious knee injury. He bounced back in 2021 with his first top 10 finish in January at Chiesa di Valmalenco and a fine 3rd place in the team event at the World Championships in Idre Fjäll with Julia Pereira de Sousa Mabileau.
After studying communications and international strategy, geopolitics and forecasting, Delphine Almeida turned to the world of sport, working for Dijon Football Côte d'Or, Olympique Lyonnais and then the Fondation du Sport Français, combining partnerships, communications, events and CSR.
A graduate of the ESSEC business school, Stéphane Nitsas joined the Allianz Group in 1993 after working for Apple. After 10 years with Allianz France, Stéphane Nitsas moved to Colombia and Argentina thanks to the Allianz Group. He returned to Allianz France in 2007 and is currently Head of CSR.
A graduate of Sciences Po and ENA, Amélie Verdier has worked as a civil servant in two areas: health and finance. On the health side, she worked at the AP-HP and the Agence Régionale de Santé as General Secretary, and at the Ministry of Health. On the finance side, Amélie Verdier worked at the Ministry of the Economy and Finance and the Economy as Finance Inspector, then Director of various divisions until becoming Chief Executive Officer in 2024.
Antoine Sire was Deputy Director of Communications and Regional Action at the Association Française des Banques from 1992 to 1995, then Director of Communications at the Confédération Nationale du Crédit Mutuel until 1997. He then spent 16 years as Head of Communications for the BNP Paribas Group, overseeing the development of the brand created by the merger of BNP and Paribas, followed by its internationalisation and the extension of its social commitments. At the same time, for 13 years he co-hosted l'Atelier Numérique on BFM Business, a radio programme devoted to new technologies. In 2013, he left BNP Paribas to devote himself to writing a historical work on the actresses of Hollywood's golden age, published in 2016. At the same time, he had been working as a Partner in the Havas Paris agency since 2015. Since 2017, Antoine Sire has been Head of Corporate Engagement for the BNP Paribas Group and a member of the BNP Paribas Group Executive Committee.
After a degree in economics and a master's in research into the environment, natural resources and agriculture, Paul Malliet joined the Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (OFCE) at Sciences Po as a research economist.
Jean-Daniel Collomb is a lecturer in American civilisation at Grenoble Alpes University. His research focuses on environmental issues in the United States. He is the author of John Muir, ecology and national parks in 2013 andA history of environmental radicalism in the United States in 2018. He has also devoted several articles to the antagonistic relationship between the American right and the environmental movement since the 1980s.
Dominique Bureau is an engineer general at the Ponts, eaux et forêts engineering school and former delegate general of the Economic Council for Sustainable Development (CEDD). He is a member of the college of the French rail regulator (ARAF), a lecturer at the École Polytechnique and Chairman of the Steering Committee of its Sustainable Development Chair.
A former winner of the Institut de l'Engagement and a graduate of AgroParisTech, Auriane Meiller is on her way to becoming an agricultural engineer. She is currently doing her end-of-studies work placement with the Causses Aigoual Cévennes Terres solidaires local authority, working on the development of pastoralism.
A former winner of the Institut de l'Engagement, Camille Brunet completed her Civic Service with The Boat Project, a sailing trip focusing on living together and the social and environmental issues facing the Mediterranean. Today, she would like to design a sailing project to discover culinary traditions and how they can be adapted to climate change.
