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 - Head of Administration and Operations
Aurore Mathieu - Campaign Manager
Anaïs Lehnert - Communication manager
Clément Faul - Research and Analysis Manager
Clément joined Reclaim Finance at the beginning of 2021 as an Analyst of Financial Institutions’ policies. He was promoted on April 2022 to the position of Research and Analysis Manager. Clément is in charge of coordinating the poles activities and support the team of analysts in the implementation of their work. After studying engineering in France and Germany, Clément focused on economic and financial issues. He worked for two years at Deloitte in Paris. As a management consultant, Clément has worked closely with financial players. He supports them on specific issues, such as financial regulation and prudential supervision. As an analyst at Reclaim Finance, Clément reviewed and evaluated fossil fuel and coal policies adopted by financial institutions. He also worked on the implementation of a policy assessment tool for the Oil & Gas sector. Clément is a graduate of the Master 212 International Affairs at Université Paris-Dauphine – PSL. He also holds a M.Sc. in Mechatronics from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany and a M.Eng from the ENSMM.
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.
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.
Alexine Cordelle – Financial Institutions’ Policy Analyst (intern)
Alexine joined Reclaim Finance in January 2024 as a financial Institutions’ policy analyst intern. Following her master’s degree in Franco-German law at Paris X, Alexine graduated with an LLM in International Business Law: Corporations and Climate Change from the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. This was her introduction to sustainable finance; she then took on an internship in the sustainable finance team at ING in Amsterdam.
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.
Antonella De Angelis- Digital Communication
Antonella joined Reclaim Finance in September 2023 as Digital Communications Officer. She has a master’s degree in communications and social and human sciences from the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) and a master’s degree in management from ESCP Business School. She initially worked in the cultural sector before joining the fight against climate change.
Louis-Maxence Delaporte - Analyst of the Energy sector
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.
Gwenn Gueguen
Olivier Guérin
François Gicqueau
Henri Her - Energy Analyst
Henri is responsible for following up on and analyzing the energy sector, fossil as well as renewable, and takes part in assessing its actors’ transition plans adequacy in front of climate targets. Graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in Energy and Environment Engineering, Henri first worked in Madagascar on the access to electricity for rural populations. He then worked for a key-player energy producer & retailer in Australia and gained experience in market analysis, through being responsible for the renewable sector and taking part in market modelling work. He finally joined Reclaim finance in early 2021.
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
Danielle Koh – Policy analyst, just energy transition
Danielle joined Reclaim Finance in October 2023 to contribute meaningfully to just energy transitions in Southeast Asia. Her background is in international relations and policy analysis. Prior to Reclaim Finance, she spent eight years in the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs working on a range of international development, political, and humanitarian issues such as technical cooperation, disaster risk preparedness, and human rights. Danielle has a Masters’ degree in Energy Policy from University College London, where she conducted research related to energy innovation, systems modelling, and just energy transitions. She also has a BSc in Economics from the National University of Singapore.
Julie Lassus - Financial Institutions' Policy Analyst
Julie joined Reclaim Finance in August 2022 as a junior policy analyst. She owns a Master’s in Management from EDHEC Business School and an MBA from the University of Alberta in Canada. During her studies, Julie specialized in corporate finance. In Canada, she also discovered the energy sector, specifically the oil industry and its consequences on the environment and indigenous communities. Her previous experiences in French public companies and in private equity convinced her of the crucial role of financial institutions in climate change. At Reclaim Finance, she helps to analyze oil and gas policies and works more specifically with the Oil and Gas Policy Tracker. Â
Antoine Laurent - Advocacy France
Guillaume Le Labousse – Finance and administration officer
 Guillaume is in charge of administration and finance. 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
Maude Lentilhac -Exit Oil & Gas campaign
Maude joined Reclaim Finance in July 2021 as a Financial Institutions’ Policy Analyst. Just graduated from ESSEC, she spent over two years assessing the oil and gas policies of financial players and helping them improve their sector policies. Her knowledge of oil and gas policies will be useful in achieving her new objectives as an Exit Oil & Gas Campaigner.
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.
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.
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).
Juliette Nory - Digital Communications Officer
Juliette joined Reclaim Finance at the beginning of 2022, as digital communications officer. After two master’s degrees in political science (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), she was ran communications for the Fondation des Femmes, a French feminist foundation. She coordinated two national campaigns in particular, #MaintenantOnAgit and #TuSerasUnHommeMonFils. Subsequently, she worked as digital communications officer for Arts et Métiers, an engineering school, for two years, redesigning its social media strategy.
Cynthia Rocamora - Industry
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.
Julie Sansoucy - Citizen and Public Engagement
Fanny Schoen - Financial Institutions’ Policy Analyst
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
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.Â
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
Kathrin is the director of the Europe Beyond Coal campaign, a coalition of NGOs that aims to ensure Europe’s exit from coal by 2030. Together with Climate Action Network Europe, she has contributed to the development of the Europe Beyond Coal campaign by coordinating NGO efforts on this issue since 2013. Kathrin brings 20 years of expertise in advocacy and campaigning on climate and energy policies to Reclaim Finance, as well as experience coordinating international networks. She has worked as a policy and advocacy officer for WWF International’s climate programme and in various positions for the research think tank Climate Analytics, the European Climate Foundation, the German Environment Ministry, the Green Party in the German Bundestag and Greenpeace International. She holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin.
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. Your individual donations allow us to maintain this independence and to build more campaigns. Find the list of our funders as at 12/31/2023 here.
Reclaim Finance do not receive any contribution from financial players.
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