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Université de la terre Entrepreneurs d'avenir

In partnership with

UNSECO

Life at a time
of great transitions

Imagine / Debate / Commit

November 25 & 26, 2022
at UNESCO • Paris

Speakers & moderators

Emmanuel NORMANT

Emmanuel NORMANT

Vice President Sustainable Development of Saint-Gobain

Emmanuel Normant, French citizen, is graduated as engineer from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris. Before joining Saint-Gobain, he worked for the French Ministry in charge of environment.

Since 2002, he works for Saint-Gobain, mostly within the Construction Product Sector, in Brazil between 2002 and 2005, in China between 2005 and 2012, in France since then. In Asia, after having been in charge of the development of the pipelines activity for China, he took over the responsibility of General Delegate for Asia-Pacific for the Saint-Gobain Group.

Between 2012 and 2016, Emmanuel Normant was President of the insulation activity of Saint-Gobain, the worldwide leader for sustainable insulation solutions. He has been appointed in May 2016 as Vice President for sustainable development for the Saint-Gobain Group.

Speaks on the theme

Friday, November 25

16h30 > 18h00

25. The transition marathon : they guide us forward

  • Yann ARNAUD: Director of Member Needs Responses and Innovation at MACIF
  • Coline BLAISON: Co-founder of Cycle Up and Director of Studies and Consulting
  • Margot DEFOORT LEVKOV: Operations Manager Soil.is
  • Alice GAVOILLE: Project manager for ecological engineering in the marine environment at Seaboost
  • Jérémy GOBE: Visual artist, founder and CEO of the Corail Artefact project
  • Emmanuel NORMANT: Vice President Sustainable Development of Saint-Gobain
  • Nelly PONS: Author, lecturer and author of "Océan plastique"

Moderation: Thomas PAROUTY

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Friday, November 25

16h30 > 18h00

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