Our Missions - The Founders' Word

Ideas & Tools to serve Resilient Transformations
Overlapping global crises highlight the need for very rapid and deep transformations globally. The necessary transitions require choices that lead to long-term ecological, economic and societal sustainability. Our world has unparalleled strengths and resources and an abundance of opportunities, but trust has rarely been as low as it is today –– in facts, in analyses, and in partners, whether in business or diplomacy.
The Bridge Tank is an independent dialogue platform that builds on such trust.
We are practitioners of ideas, economics, public policy, and influence, all brought together by the idea that crafted trust is the foundation stone that make action sustainable and resilient.
Through the Bridge Tank's quality networks and clubs, we provide:
- independent and robust analyses bringing together expertise and geographies which otherwise exist in silos,
- a shared capacity for argumentation and public conviction, and
- advisory and mobilization capacities to serve transformative projects.
Our Vision - The Chairman's Word

Framing the post-Emerging World
Joël Ruet
Emerging economies wish to reshape global affairs. On one hand, the majority of growth, choices that contribute framing the future, take place in emerging economies, and on the other, the "developed" world is re-engineering itself in response to these economies –– hopes, opportunities, fears and threats included.
Emerging economies do not behave the way Western-centric analyses assumed, but rather follow the driving forces emerging actors themselves have initiated for at least two decades. Focusing on these driving forces with the right analytical tools allows one to position oneself in our post-emerging world.
Based on the foundation of 20 years spent mostly in the heart of these economies –– from India to China, via the Arab World and Africa, with the support of networks of excellence in Europe and America, and with decision makers and influencers from these countries, including the rising generation, I decided to dedicate myself to the creation of an innovative exchange tool, present in major world forums, active with innovative companies, and mobilized by decision-makers.
Thanks to the confidence of its members and the open and informed exchanges among them combined with the use of rigorous analytical methods,
the Bridge Tank innovates and serves as a generator of trust to mobilize action.
The Bridge Tank functions as a generator of trust towards action.
Our Advisory Board

Yoginder K. Alagh
Trustee, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, former Minister of Power & Member Planning Commission of India

J-Claude Beaujour
Vice President, France-Americas Foundation
& Lawyer, Paris Bar

Irina Bokova
Former DG UNESCO,
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bulgaria

Djellil Bouzidi
Member, French Higher Authority on Statistics & Director of Economic Studies, Terra Nova

Philippe Coste
Former french Ambassador to Cambodia and Egypt & Director for Europe, french Foreign Affairs

Mamadou L. Diallo
Member of Parliament, Senegal, former Head of Staff, of the African Union President & Central Banker

Aissa Dionne
Textile Industry Leader, West Africa, Gallery Owner, & Dakar 'off' Biennale for contemporary art co-roganiser

Stéphane Gompertz
Former Ambassador to Austria & Ethiopia, f. Director for Africa, French Foreign Affairs, Advisor I&P-Investisseurs & Partenaires

Driss Guerraoui
Chairman, Competition Council of Morocco, former SG, Economic Social & Environmental Council

Hakima el Haite
President, Liberal International former Environment Minister of Morocco and UN-COP22 "Climate Champion"

Kang Rongping
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences & Director, Institute for Entreprise, Centre for China in Globalisation

El Haj Kasse
Minister-Counsellor for Culture to the President of Senegal, former Scientific President, XVth Francophonie Summit

Claire Martin
Member, French Academy of Technologies, former DG Renault-Nissan Consulting

Suresh Prabhu
G20-Sherpa to Prime Minister, former Cabinet Minister of Trade, Industry, & Civil Aviation, Government of India

S.Y. Quraishi
Former Chairman Electoral Commission of India, former DG National Public Television, state level Power Secretary

Raphael Schoentgen
Former CTO & Executive Committee Member, ENGIE
Former President Hydrogen Europe

Hamed Semega
High Commissioner Senegal River Basin International Organisation, former Minister of Mines & Equipment, Mali

Pranjal Sharma
Advisor Davos World Economic Forum, Contributing Editor, Business Standard & Business World

Mohamed Soual
Economic Advisor to the CEO, Office Chérifien des Phosphates, former Director Caisse des Dépôts, Morocco

Aissata Tall-Sall
Foreign Affairs Minister of Senegal, Special Envoy of the President, Member of Parliament, f. Minister of Communication

Aminata Toure
Member Women Speakers, UNESCO, former Prime Minister & Minister of Justice, Senegal, Special Envoy of President Macky Sall

Saoussen Thiery
Administrator, The Bridge Tank Endowment Fund
Talents Director EDF New Nuclear Projects

Jasmine Zerinini Cowper-Coles
Chatham House Council,
former Vice-Director, South Asia & Afghanistan, French Foreign Affairs
Our Team & Associate Experts

Xavier Richet
Director of Economic Studies, Emeritus Professor University Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle Jean Monnet Chair

Saoussen Thiery
Administrator of The Bridge Tank Endowment Fund

Samba Hanne
Administrator of The Bridge Tank Endowment Fund

Emmanuel Dupont
Advisor to the President
Strategic Affairs & Security,
former Army Officer, French Foreign Legion

Zhao Wei
Associate Director China
Associate Professor in International Management,
ESSCA

Jayna Kothari
Associate Director, India
Co-fouder, Centre for Law & Policy Research Bangalore
Cambridge University Fellow

Rokhaya Wade
Legal Advisor, Director for Communication

Xieshu Wang
Senior Expert, Finance
Associate researcher
Ecole Polytechnique Paris & University of Torino, Italy

Jean Pasternak
Senior Advisor, Industry
Strategy Director, Nasekomo
former Carbon Strategy Director Schneider Electric

William Nkontchou
Senior Advisor, Private Equity
Managing Director
Emerging Capital Partners
Member, Choiseul Africa

Maribel Lozano Rojas
Senior Expert, Ecology, South America

Alexandre Borde
Senior Expert Climate Finance
CEO Cibola partners, Observer to the Board, Green Climate Fund

Zhang Yang
Senior Expert, Cooperation China-Europe-Africa,
Partner Cibola

Guillaume Henry
Senior Expert IP & Green Technologies, Co-founder French Association of the Ecological Analysis of Law

Edouard Lanckriet
Senior Expert Bio Resources,
Innovation Manager, Territories & Environment,
Agrosolutions - InVivo

Eric Cheminot
Senior Expert, Algorithms &
Expert System,
Senior Data Engineer, Sodexo

Haruki Sawamura
Junior Analyst Innovation
Ph-D candidate Institute for Sustainable Mobility,
Ecole Polytechnique Paris

Virna Corniola
Editor & Junior Analyst
Bio-energies, Africa

Antoine Goutaland
Associate Researcher, Green Climate Fund, G20 & energy,

Tania Righi
Associate Analyst
Climate Finance

Baudoin Becker
Associate Analyst Energy
Transition Policies

Clarisse Hida
Associate Analyst Public Finance
& Banking Sector

Florian Dommergues
Associate Analyst Energy, Hydrogen & COP26

Malaurie Le Bail
COP26 Program Coordinator
Analyst, International Affairs