ACEF Speaker
Pierre Rousseau
Independent Consultant for Finance and Sustainability,
After more than 30 years as a professional in Finance, Pierre is now an active Independent Consultant for Finance and Sustainability. His main clients are large financial institutions, renowned corporations as well new disruptive entrepreneurship initiatives. Indeed, amongst several mandates, he is a Senior Advisor for BNP Paribas’s Corporate Engagement Department, Project Advisor for Deme Group and Senior Advisor to the CEO of innovative nature-based businesses such TerraGrn and Blue Finance. In addition to this consultancy role, Pierre has founded, develop and supervise as Executive Chairman, Nomad Plastic Ltd, a social business providing marine services for sustainable coastal tourism, fighting ocean plastic pollution, building resilient ecosystems for marine biodiversity conservation and development of the local coastal communities in emerging markets. Prior to this, Pierre has more than three decades of experience across the financial services industry, two thirds of which have been spent in Asia Pacific. For more than 16 years, he was a Senior Executive Manager for BNP Paribas, most recently Head of Global Markets and Financial Institutions Coverage in Asia Pacific from 2015 to 2018 before acting as Senior Advisor for Sustainable Business on his return in Europe from 2019 to 2021.