He has covered the French presidency and the 2012 France presidential campaign, before becoming Political Editor for the channel. In 2018, he became a senior political commentator for domestic and international affairs. He was a regular, and is still an occasional, anchor for BFMTV.
 
Thierry started his career with French business newspaper La Tribune, serving successively as London Correspondent, Deputy International Editor, US Correspondent, and Economics Editor. 

With his rich experience, Bernard will cover economic and geopolitical issues and developments in his region. He will contribute to informing the Group’s “risk decision makers” of developments to help them make the correct decisions and promote Coface’s expertise within a large external communication.

Prior to joining Coface in Singapore, he was a Principal Economist at IHS Markit. His other previous roles include Market Strategist for IG Asia and Regional Economist at 4CAST. Bernard has also conducted research on trade and economic issues at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs.

Bernard holds a M.Sc. in Economics from the Singapore Management University and a B.Sc. in Economics and Finance from the University of London.

Since 2014, he had been technical advisor for industrial affairs in the Cabinet of Mr. Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister of Defense.
Formerly, he served as a project manager in the Aerospace and Defense Unit of the French Government Shareholding Agency at Bercy. Prior to that, he was an adviser on purchasing and subcontracting at Latécoère and advisor to the CEO of the OCP Group.
Geoffrey Bouquot is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique (2005) and the Ecole des Mines, Paris.

He spent 9 years within the Natixis / BPCE group as an economist specialising in France and the euro zone. In 2014, he joined the strategy and economic intelligence department of TotalEnergies as Deputy of the Chief Economist, which allowed him to become an expert in energy markets while continuing to make macroeconomic forecasts. In 2019, he became Chief Economist of the TotalEnergies Group.

Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline graduated from École Centrale Paris. She is Professor at PSE and at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
She is a member of the Conseil économique pour le développement durable and she chairs the French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

Anca Dan started her career in the banking sector in Romania 20 years ago and joined Coface in 2009 as Head of Risk Underwriting Department of our Romanian entity, assuming, in time, increased responsibilities within the group: in 2013 she relocated to Vienna and took over the Coface Global Solution Risk Underwriting Manager position for Central and Eastern Europe.  She was appointed successively Regional Risk Underwriting Director in 2016 and Regional Underwriting Director for Central and Eastern Europe Region in 2018. Anca holds a double major in Business and Law.

In 1996, Xavier joined GE Capital, where he began an international career, first in Chicago as Director of Strategy and Growth of the finance division of the Global Auto business. He was appointed successively CEO of GE Money in France in 2002, in Europe in 2005, and of GE Capital’s banking activities in Europe, Russia and Turkey in 2009. In 2011, he was named CEO of GE Capital Asia Pacific, based in Japan. He was appointed GE Capital’s Director of Strategy and Growth, based in London, at the end of 2013.
 
Xavier has held Board and Board Committee positions in several large international banking and financial services businesses: Garanti Bank listed bank in Turkey; Kungsri Group listed bank in Thailand; Hyundai Capital in Korea; Axa France Vie and IARD; and WiZink Bank in Spain. He currently serves as Board Member and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of French listed ALD Automotive.
 
He is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.

After having been a research professor at the University of Grenoble and having conducted field studies in Asia as part of his doctoral thesis, Denis Ferrand joined Rexecode in 2000 as an economist. He is notably in charge of analyzing and forecasting the economic situation in France. He also developed work on the competitiveness of the production system in France.
Columnist for Les Echos, he is also in charge of the economic analysis course at the Institut Gestion de Patrimoine of the University of Paris-Dauphine and regularly intervenes in the media (tv, radio, print, web ...) as well as during business conferences.

Before joining the think tank industry, Gomart was a scholar (Assistant Professor at La Sorbonne, 1996-1999), a cadet officer in the Army (2000), and a policy entrepreneur (2001-2004). Joining Ifri in 2004, he set up the Russia/NIS centre. His academic and professional background has been closely related to post-Soviet space, but also to wider international issues (security, energy, and digital governance). As Lavoisier Fellow at the State Institute for International Relations (University-MGIMO – Moscow), Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies (European Union – Paris) and Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of War Studies (King’s College – London), Gomart has acquired a diversified international experience.
 
As Researcher, he is currently working on Russia, digital governance, country risk, and think tanks. He recently published L’affolement du monde - 10 enjeux géopolitiques, Editions Tallandier, 2019 (Prix Louis Marin and Prix du Livre de Géopolitique); “What Is A Think Tank? A French Perspective”, Etudes de l'Ifri, November 2019; « Le COVID-19 et la fin de l'innocence technologique », Politique étrangère, vol. 85, n° 2, Summer 2020, Guerres Invisibles. Nos prochains défis géopolitiques, Editions Tallandier, 2021, as well as « Comment préparer 2050 ? De la « prévoyance » à la « grande stratégie » », (with Martin Briens) Politique étrangère, vol. 86, n° 4, Winter 2021.
 
Thomas Gomart has been a member of the Strategic Review Committee on the Strategic Review of Defence and National Security 2017 (French Ministry of Armed Forces). He is a member of the scientific committee of the Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence (IHEDN). He is also a member of the editorial board of the French journals Politique étrangère, Etudes, and Revue des deux mondes.

Since 2013, she is Coface Economist for Latin America and is based in Brazil