A statistician by training, Mathieu Garnero joined Société Générale in 2004, where he first developed an expertise in modeling and risk management for credit activities, before becoming deputy head of the internal models teams for market operations in 2011 (counterparty and market risk). He then went through a career change and completed a university degree focusing on sociological and economic issues related to the environment. He joined the ADEME research and prospective department in 2019 where he first worked on the inclusion of financing issues in the ThreeME macroeconomic model before taking the lead of an European project (LIFE) on sustainable finance working with a consortium of French actors.