About

Francois-Xavier Olivieri has been part of France’s gas sector since 1998 when he joined the Gaz de France Group (GDF) (which was later turned into GDF SUEZ and now Engie), where he embellished the initial contractual framework for Third Party Access which was further translated into operational agreements and promoted by the European Commission. His achievements are vested with the boom in the gas industry, where in 2002 he is recognised for the implementation of the legal framework for merchant wholesale activities on the open market. This then lead to his role as head of legal for Gaselys, Société Générale and GDF SUEZ’s commodities trading house, as a result of a merger between all trading and portfolio management activities of the group, he ran as general counsel. He took his current role in 2012 where he was entrusted with asset optimisation, trading activities and long term energy procurement. With 40 employees reporting into him, Olivieri has merged teams from two different mindsets and aligned them to the strategic ambitions of the energy management and trading business unit. The regulation and compliance teams now cover the ‘the front to end process of energy wholesale market regulations’. Expertise founded in the growth of the gas and energy sector allow Olivieri to present strong lobbying capacities and real-time regulatory knowledge of the sector. Olivieri plays an active role in the evolution of the energy industry, steering hand-in-hand the evolution of Engie’s legal function and consequently their strategic direction.