European Young Leaders

Diane has more than 15 years of international experience in global corporations, consulting, government, international organisations and NGOs. As current Vice-President at Suez, a global leader in the water and waste sector, she leads their activities in Africa and the Middle East supporting cities and industries in the circular economy to preserve, optimise and secure the resources essential to our future. Diane is also the founder of the NGO Action Emploi Réfugiés, which aims to facilitate refugees’ access to jobs, and advises French President Emmanuel Macron as Member of the Presidential Council on Africa. In 2014, she was listed by the French newspaper Les Echos as part of the “French touch”, the 100 personalities promoting France abroad.

Nassira is a French journalist and one of the few female editors-in-chief of a French national media outlet. She began her career as a TV reporter and news anchor at Itele/Canal+ before joining France 2 where she worked as a reporter for the evening TV news. In 2016, she took the helm of the Bondy Blog, a news website that gives voices to the voiceless. In her work, Nassira puts the emphasis on local investigations, especially of marginalised people living on the outskirts of cities, particularly around Paris.

Nadia, better known by her stage name Imany, is a French pop-soul singer. After a successful modelling career in New York, she reinvented and established herself as a singer in Paris. Her debut album, ‘The Shape of a Broken Heart’, released in 2011, became soon platinum. Since her debut, Imany went on to write the soundtrack for the film ‘French Women’, released an acclaimed second album, ‘The Wrong Kind of War’, and toured extensively around the world. She has mapped out her route ploughing a furrow between soul, folk, blues and pop, whilst imposing her own style.

Brune spent a great part of her professional career working in Asia, notably for then Cabinet Minister Sam Pitroda, a pioneer of the Indian telecom revolution, in the Indian government. She then joined the French Development Agency coordinating projects on sustainable urban development and the preservation of biodiversity. As Director of Sustainable Development for South Asia at Veolia, Brune worked in the slums of large Indian megacities focusing on projects related to drinking water distribution. In 2017, Brune returned to France and joined Emmanuel Macron’s La République en Marche. She was elected Member of the National Assembly and, on the same day, was appointed as the Secretary of State to the Minister for Ecological and Inclusive Transition. In 2020, following the change in government in France, she returned to her duties as Member of the National Assembly full time.