Our team

Graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Lyon (HESTRAD), with a degree in Sociology and a Preparatory Diploma for Accounting and Financial Expertise (DPECF), Emmanuel joined Action Europe in 2007.​

After starting his career as a CIRI correspondent in the central administration, Emmanuel then held responsibilities in national groups and listed SMEs.

For more than 15 years, Emmanuel has been a regular interlocutor of the European Commission. He has a thorough knowledge of its decision-making processes, which allows him to recommend the most relevant strategies to Brussels.​

At the European Commission, Professor Klaus-Dieter Borchardt was successively member of the Secretariat General, member of the Cabinet, Deputy Director General of DG Energy and Director of DG AGRI.
His in-depth knowledge of the European legislative, regulatory and legal framework for renewable energies, energy efficiency and state aid give him a precise vision of how public action works in Brussels, as well as a solid network of contacts.
During his 33 years at the European Commission, Klaus-Dieter Borchardt played a decisive role in several major developments in EU law and energy policy. He spent 12 years in the Commission’s Legal Service, where he was responsible for state aid, the internal market and agriculture, and 9 years in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy.
Trilingual German-English-French, he teaches in Germany and Denmark. He is also a senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.
He joined Action Europe in 2024.

Chief of Staff of three French ministers of the interior and two ministers of defence, former prefect of the Rhône-Alpes Region, Jacques has managed the institutional relations of two strategic French companies in the nuclear and maritime freight sectors.​ As a senior civil servant with more than ten years of experience in the corporate world, Jacques joined Action Europe in 2022, bringing to our firm his perfect knowledge of the French administrative system, of which he was a leading practitioner.​

Gautier holds two masters’ degrees in international business law and European lobbying and joined Action Europe in 2022. For 15 years, Gautier worked with CIS and Southeast Asian countries, firstly for the French administration, then for various European companies for the development of structuring projects and industrial partnerships.​

Back in France, Gautier specialized in strategic consulting for the energy transition. He works on the adaptation of infrastructures, market rules and the use of low carbon and renewable hydrogen in the decarbonization of the energy system.​

Born and raised in Madeira, Luís joined Action Europe in 2023 to advocate for the interests of the Outermost Regions of the EU. ​Luís began his career at the Permanent Mission of Portugal to the United Nations, in New York. He then worked for the Regional Government of Madeira, having lobbied for Madeira’s interests as an Outermost Region of the EU.

Since January of 2022, Luís has held various posts in Brussels related to European Affairs. He recently completed his Blue Book traineeship with the European External Action Service (EEAS), having also previously worked as a consultant in Public Affairs. ​Luís holds a Master of Arts in History and International Relations from the University of Aberdeen. He speaks Portuguese, English, French, and some Spanish.

Graduating from the University of Lisbon’s School of Arts and Humanities and having studied studied in the same University’s School of Law, Manuel Maria joined Action Europe in 2023. During his time in Law School, he concluded a series of specialised courses relating to EU Affairs and international energy policy. He speaks perfect Portuguese and English, as well as Spanish, French and German.

His former career as Master of Yachts allowed him to travel all over the World for nearly a decade, bringing to Action Europe a rigorous, focused and problem-solving methodology, particularly in the context of the agricultural issues he is particularly well versed in.