• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Gabrielle Gauthey

TotalEnergies

Directeur Carbon Neutrality Businesses

Gabrielle Gauthey is an experienced executive with strong local and international experience in investment, innovation, energy, digital economy. In June 2019, she is appointed at the executive committee of the GRP (Gaz, Rewables, Power) branch of Total, as SVP carbon neutrality businesses in charge of ventures, energy efficiency, carbon sinks (CCUS and nature-based solutions) and hydrogen. After starting her career in the French public sector, she is adviser to the French Minister for Space and Telecom in charge of the 199 6Telecom law. In 1998, as Deputy CEO of the Sofirad, she creates “Le SAT”, first video satellite bouquet to Africa, now Canalsatellite. In 2000, she becomes Head of the ICT Department at the Caisse des Dépôts, in charge of digital spatial planning. From 2003 to 2008, she is Commissioner at the French Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Posts (ARCEP), and vice-chair of the ERG (European regulators’ group) From 2009 to 2015, she is Group Corporate Vice President of Alcatel-Lucent, member of the Executive Committee, in charge of Public sector, governmental projects and Defense. From February 2015 to May 2018, Gabrielle Gauthey is the EVP at the Caisse des Dépôts, in charge of investment in infrastructure, real estate, energy, telecom. She is the former President of the innovation Commission of MEDEF (French business association) She sits at the board of Gecina, Radiall and GFI and is a member of the French Academy for Technologies Gabrielle Gauthey is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole des Mines.

Sessions With Gabrielle Gauthey

Tuesday, 10 March

  • 03:30pm - 04:20pm (CST) / -

    Will the Energy Innovation Ecosystem Deliver?
    Innovation & Technology

    Although the cleantech innovation ecosystem—research institutions, entrepreneurs, financiers, and support institutions—is diverse and productive, converting cleantech discoveries and research breakthroughs into commercially viable, transformative energy systems has proven difficult. With incumbent energy systems economically efficient and deeply entrenched, cleantech innovation faces a fundamental dilemma—the scale economies necessary to compete require a large customer base that doesn’t yet exist. How is our clean energy innovation ecosystem equipped to be transformative? What needs to be strengthened? Is it profitable to focus on individual elements, or should we consider the system holistically, and reframe our expectations?