François-Xavier Roussel

PERFORMANCE AND INNOVATION DIRECTOR | ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE

Roussel is EDF R&D’s Performance and Innovation Director since June 2010. François-Xavier serves on EDF R&D’s executive team and oversees finance, innovation and corporate venture capital operations. He recently launched EDF’s Electranova Capital innovation fund. Previously, François-Xavier was EDF’s Corporate Finance Director for France and he held various executive positions at the Group’s Finance Division. Earlier in his career, François-Xavier Roussel held Finance and Operations executive positions both in the French administration (General Directorate of the Treasury) and in private companies such as Saint-Gobain. François-Xavier Roussel graduated from Sciences Po and HEC Paris.