Laurence Borie-Bancel
Managing Director - Thermal Global Business Line, ENGIE
Laurence Borie-Bancel is the Managing Director of the (new) Thermal Business Line of ENGIE, in charge of thermal power generation worldwide (approximately 65 gigawatts installed).
Ms Borie-Bancel began her career in 1989, in Gaz de France’s Infrastructures (Direction Production Transport) Business Unit (BU) where she worked on different projects in the field of natural and liquefied natural gas (LNG), mainly in France and India.
In 2005, she joined the Power Generation BU of Gaz de France (Direction Electricité) and headed the development of power generation assets (thermal gas and renewable assets). Beginning 2009, she managed business development oversight for the France branch of GDF SUEZ, focusing on renewables and thermal gas power production. In 2012, she became Deputy General Manager of La Compagnie du Vent, and was in charge of the development of onshore and offshore wind projects, as well as solar projects, mainly in France. In 2015, Ms Borie-Bancel joined the Generation Europe BU of ENGIE, and was responsible for the operation of the group’s thermal assets in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece (mainly gas).
She then became the CEO of Elengy, the subsidiary of ENGIE operating the LNG importing terminals in France, in 2018.