Who are we
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our nGO
Reclaim Finance is a non-governmental research and campaigning organization. It was founded in March 2020 by Lucie Pinson, winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2020, aiming to put finance work for the climate.
Climate change is accelerating, with increasingly violent impacts threatening the lives of thousands of people and species. If nothing is done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), the victims will soon be in the millions.
Finance is a critical lever in the fight against climate change. But today, mainstream finance remains at odds with the objectives of social and climate justice.
Despite the growing popularity of sustainable finance themes, almost all financial services are devoted to the development of practices based on the consumption of fossil fuels and the overexploitation of natural resources.
Reclaim Finance intends to play a role of citizen counter-power because the current action is not enough. Nothing allows us to affirm that the new tools of “green finance” have a real positive impact. We therefore follow and analyze the activities of financial actors to propose an alternative deciphering and expose their real impacts.
Our team
Lucie Pinson - Founder and Executive Director
Lucie founded Reclaim Finance in 2020 after several years of campaigning aimed at private financial actors, with the aim of broadening her fight to the entire financial sector and the institutions influencing its practices in order to fully utilize the financial leverage in transforming our economies. A social and environmental justice activist, Lucie began working on finance in 2013 when she joined Friends of the Earth France. She worked there until 2017 before continuing her voluntary commitment, still focusing on financial issues. In 2018, she joined the Sunrise Project as the European coordinator of the Unfriend Coal campaign, now called Insure Our Future, targeting insurers/reinsurers. She managed to persuade the largest French banking and insurance groups to adopt the first sectoral policies excluding entire segments of fossil fuels and contributed to pushing dozens of other financial actors in this direction. She received the Goldman Environmental Prize in November 2020, in recognition of her work on coal, and was listed in 2023 by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people on climate issues. Reuters listed her the same year as one of the 20 most influential women in the field.
Elinor Rafaelli - Director of Operations and Administration
Aurore Mathieu - Campaign Manager
Anaïs Lehnert - Communication manager
Inés Alberico - FFFC Coordinator
Sarah Bakaloglou - Press relations France
Sarah joined Reclaim Finance in February 2023 as a Press Relations Officer for France. A graduate of the Institut Pratique du Journalisme, she worked as a radio journalist in France and Italy, before moving to Burma and then Poland as a correspondent for French-speaking media (including RFI, Radio France, and RTS). Back in France in June 2022, Sarah Bakaloglou joined the NGO Première Urgence Internationale as a communications and press relations officer and also carried out missions at the UN in New York as a press officer.
Achille Bogaert - Junior Energy Analyst
Antoine Bouhey - Campaign coordinator
Marie Brichart – Finance and administration officer
Marie ensures the smooth running of our organization and our team: she is in charge of administrative and accounting management, and also works on human resources. She joined Reclaim after having held the position of financial director in a French NGO specialized in the mediation of armed conflict. She has also worked for several years in administrative and financial positions in emergency and development NGOs, mainly in Asia and Africa, where she lived. Marie is a graduate of EICD 3A, an international business and development school, and also holds a master’s degree in International Cooperation and Development with a specialization in risk management in developing countries, obtained at Sciences Po Bordeaux.
Helen Burley - International Media Relations
Helen joined Reclaim Finance in November 2022 to lead on international media outreach. Having trained as a journalist, she has worked on communications for a number of environmental campaigns, including as a press officer for Friends of the Earth UK. Most recently she has led communications at Global Canopy, unveiling the links between finance and tropical deforestation. She has a degree in French from the University of Oxford and a MSc in Globalisation and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
Raphaël Cros - Civil Society Engagement Campaigner
Raphaël joined Reclaim Finance in April 2022. As Civil Society Engagement Campaigner, he works with a wide range of actors – NGOs, community groups, trade unions, employee organizations, local authorities etc. He has a master’s degree in public affairs from Sciences Po Bordeaux. He has lobbied for solar energy, and disseminated summaries of the IPCC report to mayors and city councillors in a training institute for local elected officials on environmental issues.
Lara Cuvelier - Sustainable Investments Campaigner
Lara joined Reclaim Finance after spending three years working on sustainable finance. After graduating from ESSEC Business School, Lara first worked at Kois Invest, a company specialized in structuring innovative financial mechanisms, where she participated in the development of a Social Impact Bond and managed the relationship with the partner NGO. She then joined EY as a consultant within EY’s Sustainable Transformation and Performance team and worked on CSR and sustainable investment issues for financial actors. She was involved in labeling and certification missions regarding financial products (French SRI label, Greenfin label, Green Bond Principles verification) and processes (Operating Principles for Impact Management). Today, Lara is a campaign manager for Reclaim Finance, working towards asset owners and managers to support sustainable investment development.
Louis-Maxence Delaporte - Energy Sector Analyst / Manager
Louis-Maxence joined Reclaim Finance in November 2021. His role? To analyze the energy sector and provide financial institutions with research to help them understand energy system and its environmental impacts. With a Master degree in Corporate Finance from Audencia business school, Louis-Maxence has worked for three years in French banks in Paris and Houston, where he participated in the financing of the oil and gas sector. Then he joined a consulting firm working on financial regulations. His different experiences have given him a broad vision of the activities of financial institutions, as well as an expertise on raw materials and the consequences of their exploitation on the environment, biodiversity and countries’ development.
Justine Duclos Gonda – Exit Oil & Gas
Justine joined Reclaim Finance in July 2023 as our “Exit Oil & Gas” campaigner. Her main role is to mobilize financial institutions to adopt policies consistent with the objective of a 1.5° world, which must be reflected in their financing to oil and gas companies. A graduate of La Sorbonne in International Relations and Environmental Management, Justine first worked in the promotion of renewable energies abroad at the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. She then relocated to Peru, where she worked on the financing of energy access projects via the carbon market, before joining the French Development Agency (AFD), where she supported Peruvian public financial institutions in their decarbonization strategies and their efforts to take climate change into account in their activities.
Christophe Etienne – Net Zero Researcher
Christophe joined Reclaim Finance in June 2024 as a Researcer. He works on financial institution decarbonization targets and transition plans. Before joining Reclaim Finance, Christophe worked for several years in the development aid sector, at the OECD and AFD (French Development Agency). He also worked as a consultant for development finance institutions on economic and financial issues as related to the environment.
Florence Gherardi
Florence joined Reclaim Finance in March 2024 as Social Media Officer. She holds a Master’s degree in Environment, Culture and Communication from the University of Glasgow. Before joining Reclaim Finance, she was in charge of communications for Stop EACOP UK and did a work placement with WWF France in French Guiana to promote sustainable fisheries.
François Gicqueau
Olivier Guérin
Rémi Hermant - Financial Institutions' Policy Analyst
Andrea Hernandez - Campaign Assistant
As a sustainable development engineer specializing in energy transition, Andrea has experience researching and implementing projects related to sustainable urban development and energy efficiency in Mexico. She collaborated with national and multilateral development banks in estimating carbon emissions linked to urban growth and in proposing mechanisms for sustainability analysis in urban contexts. After pursuing a Master’s degree in Public policy: energy, environment and sustainability at Sciences Po Paris, Andrea moved to the private banking sector, working briefly on the green bond market before joining Reclaim Finance.
Romain Joyeux – Financial Analyst
Guillaume Le Labousse – Head of Finance and Administration
Guillaume is head of finances at Reclaim Finance since April 2024. He joined the team on June 2023 as an administration and finance officer. He has worked for nearly 10 years as an administrative and financial manager in environmental and social justice NGOs, including 5 years at Friends of the Earth France, part of a network of NGOs of which Reclaim Finance is a member. Guillaume holds a Master’s degree in Energy from the University of South Britanny, as well as a Master’s degree in Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development Management from the Institut Catholique de Paris.
Ariel Le Bourdonnec - Insurers and Reinsurers Campaigner and Analyst
Yann Louvel - Senior Financial Institutions' Policy Analyst
Yann analyses fossil fuel policies adopted by private financial institutions. Before joining Reclaim Finance at its launch, Yann worked at BankTrack for 10 years as the lead campaigner on climate and energy. At BankTrack, Yann played a major role in writing and publishing important international reports on fossil fuel financing. This includes the reports written with Urgewald on banks and coal and the annual Report Card with the Rainforest Action Network on banks and fossil fuels. Prior to that, he worked as a private finance campaigner for Friends of the Earth France, targeting French banks for their support of controversial projects. Yann lived in Montreal for four years. There, he worked as the regional coordinator of the Sustainable Campuses Project for the youth branch of the Sierra Club Canada. Yann holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences from the Université du Québec in Montréal.
Aatiraï Manickawasagar - Digital Project Officer
Aatiraï joined Reclaim Finance in December 2024. Currently in the final stages of obtaining her University Bachelor’s of Technology in Business Marketing with a specialization in Digital Marketing, she works on enhancing Reclaim Finance’s web visibility and ensuring the smooth execution of our digital communications.
Léo Martin - Digital Project Officer
Léo joined Reclaim Finance in May 2022 as Digital Project Officer. His main mission is to implement the communication strategy of the organization on multiple digital media and especially on its website. He has a degree in digital project management from EEMI and a masters in risk and crisis management from the University of Paris. Léo previously worked for a cybersecurity software company to set up its marketing and communication activities before deciding to engage in the fight for the climate.
Agathe Masson – Stewardship campaign
Agathe joined Reclaim Finance in February 2023 to work on financial insitutions’ engagement practices with the highest emitting companies. Agathe’s mission is to decipher engagement practices, analyze their effectiveness and make proposals to correct their main weaknesses. A graduate of ESSEC Business School, Agathe completed an internship in ESG analysis at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, then in the Microfinance & Social Entrepreneurship team of the CSR department of BNP Paribas. Before joining Reclaim Finance, Agathe worked as a consultant in sustainable development for two years at Nomadéis, then as a senior consultant in sustainable finance at KPMG.
Zeina Mazouzi - Human Resources Manager
Zeina joined Reclaim Finance in September 2024 as HR Manager. She has worked as an HR manager for international companies for ten years, mainly in the technology sector. She is also a coach and a facilitator. She has a master’s degree in intercultural communication, and an MBA in international HR and has an executive coaching certificate from HEC Paris.
Paddy McCully - Energy Transition Senior Analyst
Before joining Reclaim Finance in 2021, Paddy was Climate & Energy Program Director at Rainforest Action Network. Before that was Executive Director of Black Rock Solar, an organization that installed solar power and did energy upgrades for tribes, non-profits and schools in Nevada. Before joining BRS he was Executive Director at International Rivers Network, supporting communities around with the world impacted by destructive dams. He was a member of the UN Environment Programme’s Dams & Development Project; an editor for Instituto del Tercer Mundo in Uruguay; and a co-editor of The Ecologist magazine in England. He is the author of Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams (Zed Books 2016 and 2001). He is a drop-out from a doctorate in underwater archaeology from Queen’s University, Belfast.
Léa Miomandre - Financial Analyst
Lea joined Reclaim Finance in March 2023 as a finance and investment analyst. She in charge of tracking financial flows to the fossil fuel sector, including analyzing general trends, changes within portfolios, and inconsistencies between the labels and contents of financial products. A graduate of ESCP Business School, she first worked in product strategy at BNP Paribas Asset Management before joining ODDO BHF Asset Management as an ESG analyst in Germany and then France.
Clarisse Murphy - Central banks
Clarisse joined Reclaim Finance in January 2023 to work on promoting monetary policy that is aligned with current environmental and social challenges and to lead campaigns aimed at shifting practices across the Eurosystem accordingly. Before joining Reclaim Finance, Clarisse contributed to the work of various organizations specialized in the defense of human rights. She worked for the United Nation’s Office of the Victims’ Rights Advocate for victims of sexual exploitation and abuse and for the French Defender of Rights on children’s rights. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (University of Warwick, UK) and a Master of Arts in International Relations and Political Science (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland).
Léonore Perrin - Social Media Officer
Cynthia Rocamora - Industry / Manager
Cynthia joined Reclaim finance as Private Finance Campaigner in May 2022. She campaigns for financial institutions to adopt robust policies to exit the thermal and metallurgical coal sectors, and for measures to decarbonize steel production. She has a masters degree in finance form Sciences Po Strasbourg. Cynthia began her career at the United Nations in Geneva, where she worked on sovereign debt sustainability in developing countries. She then joined a local UNICEF committee to carry out advocacy and awareness raising activities. Before joining Reclaim Finance, she worked for four years for the French chapter of Transparency International, where she campaigned to expose the impact of corruption on the environment and on human rights.
Sacha Ruello-Jossic - Insurance Campaign Organizer (Insure our Future coalition)
Sacha works for the Insure Our Future coalition, which brings together NGOs and social movements around the world. Her goal is to push French insurance companies to stop supporting fossil fuel expansion. Sacha previously helped coordinate the Stop EACOP campaign in the UK. She holds a double degree in international relations from Sciences Po Paris and University College London, and is currently completing a master’s degree in public affairs at Sciences Po Paris, specializing in energy, environment and sustainable development.
Julie Sansoucy - Citizen and Public Engagement
Paul Schreiber - Senior Policy Advisor
Paul oversees Reclaim Finance’s work on the regulation and supervision of financial institutions, as well as on monetary policy and the activities of central banks. He is a member of several international expert groups on finance and climate, and of the Climate Commission of the French market authority. He was previously in charge of the central banks and regulation campaign. Paul worked as a parliamentary assistant at the French National Assembly for MPs Eric Alauzet and Cendra Motin from 2017 to 2020. In particular, he worked on the Finance Bill and the Social Security Financing Bill. Paul has a degree in political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lyon.
Pierre-Alain Sebrecht - Project Coordinator
Louise Wagner - Banks Campaigner
Louise Wagner joined Reclaim Finance in February 2025. She is working to put an end to European bank financing for the expansion of oil and gas. Before joining the organization, she was a coordinator and campaigner for the social movement Debt for Climate, working on the intersection of debt, extractivism and colonialism. She also worked for Shale Must Fall to address the dangers of gas expansion. She holds a bachelor’s degree in social anthropology and sociology. During her studies she researched the catastrophic socio-ecological implications of geoengineering.
Noam-Pierre Werlé - Financial Institutions' Policy Analyst
Noam-Pierre joined Reclaim Finance in February 2022 as a policy analyst. He holds a Master’s degree in political science, specialized in the evaluation of public policies, from Paris-Dauphine University. Attracted by journalism in the first place, it is within the online media ID L’Info Durable that his interest for the financial aspects of the climate crisis began to grow. His goal within Reclaim Finance is to analyze the financial players’ commitments in the oil and gas sector, mostly through the Oil and Gas Policy Tracker in which more than 360 international institutions are assessed and compared.
Clara Williams - Financial Analyst
Clara joined Reclaim Finance in November 2023, as a Financial Analyst. She examines the universe of financial data for transactions and investments that fund the fossil fuel industry, and supports the campaigners with quantitative analysis. After studying mathematics at Oxford University in the UK, Clara spent several years working in large investment banks as a Fixed Income trader, across London and Paris. Before joining Reclaim Finance, she also acted as ESG Sponsor for the Global Macro department of BNP Paribas CIB.
The board
Heffa Schücking - Member of the Board of Directors
Heffa is the founder and director of the German human rights and environmental organisation Urgewald. She has challenged financial institutions for more than 25 years and has designed many successful advocacy campaigns. In 1994, Heffa received the Goldman Environmental Award for her work. Her NGO Urgewald played a key role in the launch of the first coal divestment measures by some of the world’s largest investors. The coal industry database known as the Global Coal Exit List, created by Urgewald in 2017, has already established itself as a reference tool to guide the exit of financial institutions from the coal sector.
Sébastien Godinot - Member of the Board of Directors
Sébastien is the Head of the Sustainable Finance Department of the WWF European Policy Office. He has worked for more than 19 years on public and private finance, including export subsidies and budgetary issues. In this process, he developed a very strong expertise on energy and climate issues related to finance and economics. He is currently coordinating a project with 12 WWF European country offices on aligning the investment portfolios of the 100 largest European asset owners with the climate objectives of the Paris Agreement. He is also closely involved in the Climate Science-Based Target initiative, which aims to develop a target-setting tool for investors and banks in 2020.
Kathrin Gutmann - Member of the Board of Directors
She has worked as Head of Policy & Advocacy with WWF International’s Climate Program and in different capacities with Climate Analytics, the European Climate Foundation, the German Environment Ministry, the Green Party in the German Bundestag, Greenpeace International and has volunteered with the German youth environment organisation BUNDjugend.
In 2021, she became the recipient of the prestigious Climate Breakthrough Award, and will use this to move Europe to a fully-renewables based power sector by 2035. She holds a master’s degree in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin.
Pablo Felmer Roa - Member of the Board of Directors
An experienced litigator with over twelve years’ experience in commercial and criminal law, working in both Paris and Barcelona, I was a legal campaigner at Reclaim Finance in 2021-2022.
Prior to that, I worked at the think tank 2 Degrees Investing Initiative, where I focused on developing research streams related to the real economy impact of sustainable finance products, corporate climate accountability, and the shortcomings in environmental practices and communication of financial institutions.
My current work is dedicated to advising environmental NGOs, providing guidance on advocacy strategies and supporting their strategic litigation efforts.
I hold a master’s degree in Banking and Financial Law from Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a diploma from Sciences Po Paris.
Our network
We work closely together with the national branch of Friends of the Earth France which runs a campaign to stop French banks from financing fossil fuels.
They support us
Our main source of funding comes from private foundations for projects we have decided to run, and from individual donations. Reclaim Finance is independent of companies, political parties and religious organisations. Reclaim Finance do not receive any contribution from financial players.
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