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Executive Vice-President of Ardian | CEO of Ardian France | Founder & Head of Ardian Infrastructure

“In such a complex world, we must assess the chances of success for various industrial policies. It is our duty to take this risk. We need both a solid framework and a real belief in industrial policy at an European level” Today, I had the pleasure of speaking at the plenary session dedicated to "Protectionism and industrial sovereignty" for the 24th Rencontres Economiques d'Aix-en-Provence." Recent history clearly shows the value of industrial policies in certain sectors, the strength of neo-protectionism, and the need to treat markets differently. It is crucial that Europe adopts the same pragmatism as other regions to organize and leverage its strengths to support critical sectors. A common strategy must be defined to direct investment and financing towards industrial and transition projects through unified policies, involving both public and private capital. At Ardian as one of the global leaders in private investment, we truly believe it is imperative to invest in the industries of tomorrow to finance Europe's transition, especially in critical sectors to ensure our industrial sovereignty. We are already doing this through investments in areas such as renewable energy (EWE AG semiconductors, data centers (Verne) and healthcare software (Dedalus). Thank you to Le Cercle des économistes for this invitation and thank you to my fellow panelists for the enriching dialogue: Román Arjona , Chief Economist at the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs of the European Commission, Anne Marie Engtoft Meldgaard, Tech Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Denmark, Ross McInnes , Chairman of the Board of Safran and Olivier Scalabre, Head of Boston Consulting Group (BCG) #REAix2024 #REAix #AixEnProvence #PrivateEquity #Infrastructure

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Ben Stocken

I help CEOs rapidly develop leaders throughout their businesses that increase Enterprise Value 🚀

1mo

Mathias, thanks for sharing!

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Marianne Borthayre

Managing Director, MISE EN OEUVRE

3mo

Fully share your believes !

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Daniel COHEN

Transformational coaching for leaders and organizations, Post graduate at EPHE (Economics) and EHESS (sociology), Psycho-somato-analyst , Analytical Psychodramatist and Hynotherapist

3mo

Well done, Matthias :)

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Pierre Bosset

Associate Founder chez AAG Partners

3mo

Félicitations Mathias

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