Edouard Vilpoux
My background
Profesionnal experience
Lead Sustainable Finance Economist – Sustainable Finance Observatory
Since 2024
in charge of Transparency (one of the 3 poles of the think-tank)
• Core missions: Analyse financial institutions’ climate transition plans and contribute to sustainable finance
methodologies and regulatory frameworks developments
• ADEME’s CTH management: Collecting and reviewing French investors ‘Art. 29 LEC’ / SFDR PAI reports ;
producing annual analysis report on 800+ AM and AO using ACT Finance methodology
• Monitoring net zero commitments (60+ European banks and AM in scope), co-designer of the Net-Zero Donut
methodology assessed by PARC Scientific and Expertise Committee (Institut Louis Bachelier)
• Advocacy: engagement with policy makers on regulations (especially SFDR 2, UE Taxonomy, Pillar 3 ESG),
with FIs on climate transition plans, and other (Coal Transition Accelerator, export credits, etc.)
• Expertises: climate transition planning, metrics and targets, financed emissions, sectoral policies, engagement
strategies, taxonomy alignment, fossil fuels exposure, climate risk exposure, biodiversity strategies
Private Banker – Rothschild & Co
2018 – 2022
• €70m portfolio management : client relationship management and business development
• Asset allocation for financial portfolio management, including private equity and structured products
• Financing structuration : both personal and professional, from revolving to long term loans
• Advosiroy : wealth structuration, fiscal and legal, wealth and corporate transmissions
• Sourcing : group investment bank, deal flow, personal development
Business Development Analyst – Rothschild & Co
2017 – 2018
• Deal flow: monitoring corporate transactions for business development
• Sales presentations to clients / prospects: target asset allocations, wealth structuring and products marketing
Corporate Banker Assistant – Rothschild & Co
2016 – 2017
• Financial and credit risk analysis, short, medium and long-term financing : productive investments, equity financing, French Public Investment Bank (BPI) co-financing, overdraft facilities, discount, etc.
• Following a portfolio of 30 companies, from SMEs to listed – clients meetings, credit committees presentations
• Sectors: industry, transport (rail freight), publishing, luxury crafts (historic French businesses)
Academic background
Paris School of Economics – Master in Analysis and Policy in Economics
2015 – 2017
(Ecole Normale Supérieure – EHESS – Ecole des Ponts – INRAE – CNRS – Université Paris 1)
• Master thesis : 1930 banking crisis in France: a new historical and quantitative analysis
(under the supervision of Eric Monnet, national research agency financed program, highest honours)
• Specialisations: econometrics, monetary and financial economics, banking history, banking regulation
HEC Paris – Executive Education in Corporate Finance
2026 – 2027 (ongoing)
Financial analysis, corporate valuation and financing and investing decisions
Aurep – Master in Wealth Management Strategy
2019 – 2020
Wealth audit and strategy, asset allocation, fiscal and legal advosory
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne – Master’s Degree in Economics
2015 – 2017
“Magistère d’Economie”
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne – Bachelor’s Degree in Econometrics
2012 – 2015
“Licence d’Econométrie”
Preparatory classes for ENS Paris-Saclay in Economics – Lycée Turgot (Paris)
2012 – 2014
“CPGE ENS Cachan D2 Economie Gestion”