Biography
President – Director General of ADEME, the Agency for Ecological Transition since 2018, Arnaud Leroy has undertaken several initiatives in favor of the marine environment and the fight against climate change.
With a degree in maritime law, international law of the sea and protection of the marine environment, he began his career in the European Parliament as a parliamentary assistant.
In 2001, he was appointed Secretary General of the French Green delegation and in 2004 he joined the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), created following the Prestige oil tanker disaster in Spanish waters. He is in charge of marine environmental protection and climate change issues.
Elected as a Member of Parliament in 2012, he has been a member of the French National Assembly’s Committee on Sustainable Development and Regional Planning and the Committee on European Affairs for five years. He particularly follows the texts related to the ecological and energy transition. He is the author and rapporteur of a bill, called the “Leroy Law”, on the blue economy, adopted in 2016, which includes measures to simplify and facilitate the recovery and development of the maritime economy.
He also chairs the study group on climate change at the National Assembly and co-chairs, with MP Bertrand Pancher, the Bilan Carbone Association, which offers carbon accounting solutions to organizations.
He was appointed President – CEO of ADEME, the Agency for Ecological Transition in 2018.