Speakers

Laurent Segalen is a franco-british clean energy investment banker. Laurent is the founder of Megawatt-X, the London-based Energy Transition investment platform, which he currently heads. Laurent has been trading and investing billions of Euros in Clean Energy over more than two decades. Recent investments have focused on Digital Green Markets, Residential Solar, Batteries and Interconnectors.

His career in Clean Energy spans over 25 years, from Director at pwc, Fund Manager at Mirova (Natixis) to Managing Director Clean Commodities at Lehman Brothers then Nomura. He was one of the co-authors of the first version of the GHGProtocol "scope 1, scope 2, scope 3" emissions concept. Laurent has won the “Renewable Energy Leader of the Year” 2024 Award by EnergyBox.

Finally, Laurent co-hosts the award-winning podcast Redefining Energy with Gerard Reid. Launched in 2018, the podcast has now been downloaded more than 2.5m times.