A statistician by training, Mathieu Garnero joined Société Générale in 2004, where he first developed expertise in modeling and risk management for credit activities, before becoming deputy head of the internal models teams for market operations (counterparty and market risk) in 2011. He then made a professional reorientation and followed a university course focusing on sociological and economic issues related to the environment. He joined the research and foresight department of the Agence de la Transition Ecologique (ADEME) in 2019, where he has taken the lead on a European project (LIFE) on sustainable finance, working through a consortium of French players.