As of March 1, 2017, Laurence Tubiana is chief executive officer of the European Climate Foundation (ECF). In addition to her role at ECF, she is chair of the board of governors at AFD, the French Development Agency, and a professor at Sciences Po, Paris.

Before joining ECF, Ms. Tubiana served as the French ambassador for climate change and special representative for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP21, and was a key architect of the landmark Paris agreement. Following the success of COP21, she was named a high-level champion for climate action.

Ms. Tubiana has decades of expertise and experience of climate change, energy, agriculture and sustainable development, working across government, think tanks, N.G.O.s and academia. From 1997 to 2002, she served as senior adviser on the environment to French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. From 2009 to 2010, she created and subsequently directed the directorate for global public goods at the French ministry of foreign affairs. In 2013, she chaired the French national debate on energy transition.

In 2002, she founded and directed the Paris-based Institute of Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI). In the 1980s and early ‘90s, she founded and headed Solagral, an advocacy N.G.O. working on global food security and the environment.