Camille Defard is an Associated researcher in Energy at the Jacques Delors Institute. She was previously Head of the Jacques Delors Energy Centre and Research Fellow in EU Energy Policy until 2024.
Prior to joining Jacques Delors Institute in February 2021, she worked in project finance for a solar and energy efficiency developer in Africa and the Indian Ocean (Green Yellow Indian Ocean), and for the French Treasury in East Africa, as Economic Attachée in charge of sustainable development, based in Nairobi. She also contributed to EU energy policy analysis within the EU Affairs Department of EDF.
Camille is a graduate from the Masters in European Affairs of Sciences Po Paris (2016) and from the Masters in Energy, Environment and Transports Economics of the Paris-Saclay University (2017). Her working languages are French, English and German.