Céline Charveriat

Céline Charveriat is the Executive Director of the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), a sustainability think tank with offices in Brussels and London. A gifted researcher and passionate advocate, Céline has over 15 years’ worth of experience in influencing debates, policies, and practices in the field of sustainable development and climate change. She joined IEEP in 2016.

Céline began her career in Washington DC as a researcher at the Peterson Institute and the Inter-American Development Bank. She worked for over 10 years with Oxfam International. She first represented the agency at the WTO and managed its Make Trade Fair campaign, including its landmark advocacy on agricultural export subsidies and domestic support. Her distinctive contribution in this field was highlighted by former Brazilian Foreign Affairs Minister Celso Amorim in his personal memoirs. In 2011, she became Oxfam’s Director of Advocacy and Campaigns, based in Brussels, where focusing her high-level representation duties on the issue of European climate change policy and COP21. Céline was recently named by Euractiv among 30 most influential people on EU’s Energy Union policy.

A French National, she was based in multiple countries, including in the United States, the UK, Switzerland, Australia and now Belgium, and has a rich experience of working together with civil society, governments and the private sector in Africa, Asia and Latin America on multiple issues such as trade, climate change to primary commodities and supply chains.