BIO

The Managing Partner and Founder of Blue like an Orange. Previously Bertrand was Managing Director of the World Bank and World Bank Group Chief Financial Officer. In this capacity he was finance deputy at the G7/G20 and representative of the World Bank. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Bertrand was the group chief financial officer at Société Générale and Crédit Agricole. Bertrand served as a member of President Jacques Chirac’s diplomatic team where he was the President’s deputy personal representative for Africa. Bertrand also spent a total of seven years at Lazard, half in New York, and London, and then in Paris as partner where he co-led in particular the restructuring of Eurotunnel. He started his career in Paris as an inspector, then deputy head of the auditing service of the French Ministry of Finance. Bertrand has served as director on a number of boards, including Haulotte Group, the leading European PE firm Eurazéo, Wealth Simple or a Canadian Fintech in asset management. He has been the co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on International Governance, Public-Private Cooperation and Sustainable Development. He is now a board member of Getlink (Eurotunnel) and “gérant” of SIPA Ouest-France. He is a ESG and sustainability senior advisor of JAB (Prêt à Manger, Coty etc.)

He is a member of the board of IDDRI and IFD (Institut de la Finance Durable set up to represent sustainability in Paris) and of the center of global Development, chaired by Larry Summers and led by Masood Ahmed (CGD). He is the co-chair of Project Syndidate advisory board. Bertrand authored the book “Money Honnie, si la finance sauvait le monde?” published in 2017 under the title “Can Finance Save the World?” translated into multiple languages.

More recently he wrote the book “Voulons-nous (sérieusement) changer le monde” with a preface by Erik Orsenna on finance after COVID and “Des femmes et des hommes, le pouvoir en partage” with Fabienne Michaille and prefaced by Michelle Yeoh, Jean Todt and Emmanuel Faber.

Bertrand is a graduate of ENA (Ecole Nationale d’Administration), SciencesPo (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris), La Sorbonne and HEC business school.