EVP France and Distributed Energy, EDF Renewables

Biography

Nicolas Couderc joined the EDF Group in 2008, at the Corporate Strategy division; he then became Head of Portfolio Structuring for Europe within the Optimization and Trading division in 2010. In 2014, he first became advisor to the CEO of EDF Energies Nouvelles, then Head of Strategy and M&A. In 2016, Nicolas Couderc is appointed as Executive VP, France and Distributed Energy. He is responsible for all EDF EN onshore activities in France (wind power plants, large and small scale PV plants) and is a member of EDF Energies Nouvelles Executive Committee. Nicolas Couderc is also a Board member of the Syndicat des Energies Renouvelables, the leading renewable energy professional association in France and of WindEurope. Prior to EDF, Nicolas Couderc spent several years in the finance sector as a university teacher and researcher, then as a market economist. He has been an associate professor since 2008 of Finance at ESCP Europe and he keeps on teaching regularly. Former student at École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, Nicolas Couderc graduated from Sciences Po Paris and holds a Doctorate in Economics from Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris.