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A graduate of the École Polytechnique and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, holder of a Master’s degree in Economic Analysis and Policy from the Paris School of Economics, Valérie Vesque-Jeancard was a consultant at the World Bank (1992-1993) before holding various positions within the Ministry of the Economy (1994-2001). Working as rapporteur at the Cour des Compte, France supreme audit institution (2002-2005), she was then appointed Deputy Director General of the National Library of France (2006-2010), Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry of Culture and Communication (2010-2011) and then Deputy Director General of the Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais (2011-2018).

In April 2018, Valérie Vesque-Jeancard joined VINCI Concessions, a branch of the VINCI group responsible for transport infrastructure concessions (airports, international motorways, urban and rail transport).

Since May 2021, she is President of VINCI Railways, a subsidiary responsible for rail and urban transport infrastructure concessions. She oversees the management of infrastructure already in service (in particular the SEA high-speed rail line via LISEA and MESEA and Synerail) as well as the development of the business in France and internationally. LISEA representative at AGIFI and vice-president of the association since May 2021, Valérie Vesque-Jeancard was elected President of AGIFI in July 2024.

Engineer from the Ecole Polytechnique (1997-2000) and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (2000-2002), holder of a master’s degree in civil engineering from Stanford University (2001-2002), Florent Janssen has 20 years of experience in the field of infrastructure, mainly on PPP and concession projects.

Florent Janssen began his career within the Bouygues Construction group, in price studies and construction management positions, before taking on project management responsibilities in the design-build consortium of the Reims Tramway (Alstom/Colas group/Bouygues Construction group), then becoming major projects sales manager for Bouygues Travaux Publics Régions France (2011-2012).

Florent Janssen joined the Eiffage Group in 2012 on the Bretagne – Pays de la Loire high-speed line project, where he held various project management positions, including as Testing Director (2016-2017). Having joined Eiffage Concessions since September 2017, he is now Infrastructure Director, in charge of the motorway, railway and port portfolio. He is Chairman of Eiffage Rail Express (ERE), infrastructure manager of the Bretagne – Pays de la Loire line. Florent Janssen was elected Vice-President of AGIFI in 2022.

A civil engineer from the Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées (2004-2008) and holder of a master’s degree in applied mathematics (2008), Pierre-Emmanuel Beluche is a former student of Sciences Po Paris (2009-2010) and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (2011-2012).

He joined the French Treasury as deputy head of the sub-Saharan Africa office (2013-2015). He was assigned to Agence France Trésor (AFT) as head of market operations, in charge of implementing the State financing program (2015-2017) and was then appointed Executive Director for Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal and Switzerland at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila (2017-2020). Back at the French Treasury, in the service of financing the economy, he took over the sustainable finance and business regulation office (2020-2022). In this capacity, he sat on the board of the High Council of the Auditors (H3C) and on the climate committee of Bpifrance.

Since March 2022, Pierre-Emmanuel Beluche has been Investment Director at Meridiam for the Africa and Europe perimeters. He has also been a member of the board of directors of Oc’Via, since December 2022, the company managing the Nîmes-Montpellier bypass. He was elected Vice-President of AGIFI in July 2024.

Graduate from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Lionel Epely started his career in transportation traffic forecasts at Systra engineering company. He moved on to several positions related to infrastructure project financing, in New York initially then in Paris.

He joined VINCI Concessions in 2014 where he worked on new financing ventures as well as M&A opportuntities in the mobility sector. He led the refinancing of LISEA which was finalized in 2018. In 2019, he was appointed as Director of Structured Finance at VINCI Concessions. He joined LISEA’s monitoring committee in 2022, before being formally appointed as CEO on September 1st, 2023.

A graduate of the École Spéciale des Travaux Publics (ME00), Jean-Matthieu de Laferrière started his career with SNCF in the maintenance and operation of railway infrastructure for conventional and high-speed lines. In 2012, he joined the Eiffage Group as Maintenance Director for the Bretagne-Pays de la Loire HSL. Since July 2020, he has also served as Head of Operations at ERE.