Géraldine is an expert who provides regulatory and advocacy support to clients from the agriculture and bioenergy sectors. She is a senior expert in international trade regulations with an extensive knowledge in agriculture, especially sugar, and bioenergy and a solid experience in advocacy work in the European Union, the United States and Brazil.

She heads the international department of the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA). She was previously a researcher and an Adjunct Professor at the Groupe d’Economie Mondiale at Sciences Po (GEM), Paris (France) and coordinator of the European Biofuels Policy research programme (EBP). Géraldine was also a joint Researcher at the International Institute for Trade Negotiations (ICONE) in São Paulo (Brazil) and a consultant at the Inter-American Bank of Development (IDB) in Washington DC (USA), and for several agribusiness firms in France.

Géraldine is the author and co-author of several international publications in the areas of bioenergy and agricultural policies as well as multilateral and regional trade negotiations in agriculture.

She holds a Ph.D. in International Economics from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po).