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Axelle Blanchard is EU Policy Manager at the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB). She joined CDSB’s Policy team in 2020 to continue her advocacy work in Brussels around the European institutions and her work there focuses on the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive within the EU sustainable finance agenda. Previously, she worked at the French national banking federation on issues ranging from capital markets union to sustainable finance, where she liaised on policy issues with EU and national regulators as well as financial supervisors. She started in Brussels as a public affairs consultant, working for global and European large companies in the fields of new technologies and health. Blanchard holds an MSc from Science Po Strasbourg, where she studied European affairs and public policies.

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