Gwenola CHAMBON

Bio

Gwenola Chambon is CEO and founding partner of Vauban Infrastructure Partners, an asset management company created in 2019, specializing in long-term investment in major European infrastructure projects that are innovative and serve the public good. A graduate of ESCP (1995), Gwenola Chambon began her career in auditing before joining BNP Paribas in 1997 as a financial advisor for large infrastructure projects. Since then, she has steadily advanced in this strategic sector, holding senior positions at CIFG, Galaxy Fund, and then Mirova (Natixis) between 2004 and 2019. At the head of a company managing over €10 billion in assets, Gwenola champions a vision of an economy that is both circular and globalized, with infrastructures that are rooted in local communities yet open to the world and sustainably beneficial to society. She embodies and implements this reconciliation of scales on a daily basis through the management of Vauban Infrastructure Partners’ funds, the vast majority of which are invested in Europe—particularly in France and its regions. All investments made by Vauban Infrastructure Partners share a common ambition: to shape the future by building sustainable and decarbonized infrastructure, such as in the fields of transportation, digitalization, public energy services, or waste management. Beyond fund management, Gwenola Chambon is actively engaged with key sector issues. She contributes to global and French infrastructure initiatives, such as those led by the PRI, and she serves as Chair of the dedicated infrastructure group within France Invest. She also oversees annual research initiatives sponsored by Vauban Infrastructure Partners, in partnership with the research firm Altermind. These studies have explored topics such as the digitization of infrastructure, infrastructure’s impact on climate, the Social Licence to Operate, the circular economy, and inclusive infrastructure. In 2024, she launched InfraVision, a think tank dedicated to sustainable infrastructure, designed to make this research accessible to all. With a growing number of active members, the think tank aims to position infrastructure as a cornerstone of society. In 2025, InfraVision has chosen to focus its research on “infrastructure in the city of tomorrow.”