Europe Chapter Event "Carbon Capture & Storage and French Energy Industry: Decarbonizing to Strengthen Sovereignty and Strategic Autonomy"

Fabrice Candia is an Industry and Mines engineer and holds a postgraduate degree (DESS) in risk management. He began his career at the Directorate General of Armaments (2001–2003) at the Ministry of Defense before joining the Nuclear Safety Authority as an inspector (2003–2006). From 2006 to 2011, he served as an inspector of classified installations at the DRIRE Île-de-France.

He then joined the ministry responsible for ecology, within the Directorate General for Risk Prevention, where he successively held the positions of Deputy Head of the Health–Environment Office and later of the Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Mission.

Since 2021, he has been Head of the Subsurface Energy Resources Office at the Directorate General for Energy and Climate (DGEC) within the Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Industrial, Energy, and Digital Sovereignty, where he is responsible in particular for matters relating to the geological storage of CO₂.

 

Fabienne Moimaux has over 20 years of international banking expertise in the debt, equity and commodity spaces. She now focusses on developing BNP Paribas’ CCUS franchise and is currently advising on several debt and equity raise processes. She previously worked for McKinsey, HSBC and Natixis. Fabienne holds a Master in International Business from Paris Dauphine’s University. 

 

Kamila Piotrowska is Head of EU Policy & Advocacy at Baker Hughes, an energy technology company. In this role, she represents the company in high-level dialogues with EU institutions and industry associations. She also serves as Vice-Chair of the IOGP Policy Sub-Committee and Vice-President of the European Geothermal Energy Council (EGEC) Board.

Before joining Baker Hughes, Kamila spent nearly a decade at IOGP – the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers, where she led policy strategy on energy, climate, air quality, and corporate issues, and managed the pan-European campaign GasNaturally.

Kamila brings 14 years of experience in EU regulatory affairs, public policy, and advocacy, with a focus on climate, energy, sustainability, and technologies such as hydrogen, CCUS and geothermal.

Born in Poland and having lived in several EU countries, she considers herself a true European.

She holds two Master’s degrees: one in International Relations and another in European Studies.

 

Cyril Vock is Head of Low Carbon Regulatory Affairs and Economic Sanctions in TotalEnergies since May 2022. He advises and assists TotalEnergies’ operational and business divisions on the international and domestic regulatory framework, and on the evolutions to anticipate at EU level, around low carbon activities and projects. Cyril focuses specifically on Carbon Capture & Storage projects, energy transition and carbon markets, in Europe in particular. He is also in charge of the application and follow up of economic sanctions within the Exploration & Production branch. Cyril joined TotalEnergies Group in 2012 and has held previous positions at Holding level in Project Finance and the EP branch as senior lawyer and negotiator in the Europe/Central Asia Area. He is a solicitor of the Law Society (England) and an Avocat at the French Bar.  Before TotalEnergies, Cyril worked in the London and Paris offices of an international law firm in the energy sector. Cyril gives regular lectures on energy law, project finance, energy transition and compliance topics to professional, academic and engineering institutions in France, Switzerland and the UK, such as Queen Mary University / Energy Law Institute, EVOLEN, Swiss and Paris Arbitration Weeks, Institut Français du Pétrole et des Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN) and Ecole des Ponts ParisTech.

 

Olivier Poix is EMEA Director for Energy Transition & Carbon Management within GaffneyCline energy Advisory (GCea).  GCea, part of the Baker Hughes group, is an integrated advisory practice provides a broad range of technical, commercial and strategic advisory support to the private and public sectors of the Energy and Industrial sectors.

Olivier has over 28 years’ experience in the international oil & gas industry with TotalEnergies and Africa-focused independents and in banking with resources-focused international banks such as MUFJ and ABN AMRO. Olivier has been involved in exploration and production, oil transportation, commercial contract negotiation, Marketing of oil, gas and LNG, raising structured commodity debt and Business Development/M&A. 

Olivier has joined GaffneyCline to further strengthen the Carbon Management practice to provide integrated decision-making support and advice for the Group’s clientele particularly with respect to CCUS and new energies.

Olivier graduated in engineering from Ecole National Supérieure de Géologie in Nancy, France and hold a MSc in Reservoir Evaluation and Management from Heriot-Watt university in the UK. He also completed his MBA at SDA Bocconi School of Management in Milan, Italy.