Students and Faculty
Energy and Finance Summer Program
56%
Women
51
Nationalities represented
50%
Student nationalities outside of Europe
22
Average age
48%
Post-bachelor's level
28%
Non-business background
(not Business, Management, Finance or Economics)
*Total Summer School 2025 Profiles
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Students
Constantly striving to bring you cutting edge content, this program builds on the success of the former Energy Transition summer program to meet the needs and demands of a rapidly changing business environment. The 2026 edition focuses on the key role of the financial sector in supporting infrastructure investments and a successful energy transition.
The program taught me that financial innovation is as critical as technical innovation in driving sustainable change.
Joining the HEC Paris Energy Transition Summer Program proved transformative for both my career and my company. In my role in...
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The Energy Transition: Where Business Meets Science
I wholeheartedly recommend this program to anyone at the intersection of business, policy, and environmental science.
Born in Iraq, with formative years in Jordan and the USA, I’ve always been intrigued by the crossroads of technology and global...
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Business & Climate Change*
What I appreciated most was the program's direct applicability to the real world. Dynamic exchanges and practical case studies allowed me to acquire skills that I now use daily in my career.
When I decided to join the summer program at HEC Paris, I...
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Business & Climate Change*
Academic Team
ACADEMIC DIRECTOR
Layal NABHAN has over twenty years of experience in the financial sector professional specialized in corporate and investment banking. She is currently Head of Sustainability for financial institutions and public sector, leading promotion and business development of Sustainable finance and ESG solutions for financial institutions globally across advisory, financing and investment businesses within a large French investment bank.
Layal works on structuring innovative financial solutions to help her financial institutions clients (including banks, insurers, asset managers, pension funds and private markets) to accelerate their transition and meet their Net Zero decarbonization targets.
Prior to banking, Layal started her career in business and management consulting. She has been involved in structuring and implementing large business transformation programs for several multinational corporate and investment banks. She has worked extensively within coverage, corporate finance, structured finance, and financial markets business lines.
Since 2011, Layal is involved in energy finance academic research, her area of focus is power generation economics, energy finance and sustainable finance. She is the Academic Director of the Energy & Finance Chair at HEC Paris and lectures regularly on energy & finance topics at HEC Paris, and Ecole Polytechnique l’X. Layal is a graduate from the American University of Beirut where she majored in electrical engineering. She also holds a master’s in international finance and a specialized certificate in Energy & Finance from HEC PARIS.
Previous Guest Speakers
- Ronald Bannout, Head of Sales & Training, Crédit du Nord, and Mangement Committee, HEC Paris graduate
- Joseph Nehmé, Associate Professor @ HEC Paris
- Paul Grimal, Senior Economist IEA (International Energy Agency)
- Delphine Marchi, Senior Investment Officer at IFC (International Finance Corporation) - World Bank Group
Key Speaker
Jean-Michel GAUTHIER is an international energy expert and professor at HEC Paris, as well as Associate Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Paris. He has also served for the past 16 years as Deloitte’s Chief Economist Officer for Energy and Resources.
Jean-Michel has over 30 years of energy sector experience. After 12 years at Total where he was responsible for oil and gas project development, he joined Deloitte in 2001 as Partner in charge of the Energy and Resources Industry Line. He became Global Leader of Energy and Resources for Deloitte Corporate Finance in 2008.
He has carried out financial advisory engagements for oil & gas major corporations, large integrated power utilities as well as energy-intensive companies. He has acted as Trustee for the European Commission in respect of power auctions. He also regularly advises governments, including France’s Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Defense on energy purchase policy and market issues, as well as Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on nuclear regulatory issues.
Jean-Michel is the Executive Director of the Energy and Finance Chair at HEC Paris. He also delivers Executive Education programs for the Qatar Foundation, the EU Institute of Innovation and Technology (KIC Innoenergy) as well as China’s energy leaders. He was awarded the 2018 Vernimmen Prize (HEC Paris Best Teaching Award).