Laurent Segalen is a franco-british clean energy investment banker. Laurent is the founder and CEO of Megawatt-X, the London-based Energy Transition investment platform. Laurent has been trading and investing billions of Euros in Clean Energy for over more than two decades. Recent investments have focused on Digital Green Markets, Residential Solar, Batteries and Interconnectors.

His career in Clean Energy spans over 25 years, from Director at pwc, Fund Manager at Mirova (Natixis) to Managing Director Clean Commodities at Lehman Brothers then Nomura.

He was one of the co-authors of the first version of the GHGProtocol "scope 1, scope 2, scope 3" emissions concept and helped create the European Trading System. He is now special adviser to the Board of IC-VCM (The Integrity Council for Voluntary Carbon Markets), and founding member of EnergyTag, a non-profit organization promoting hourly matching of Renewable Energy certificates.

Laurent has won the “Renewable Energy Leader of the Year” 2024 Award by EnergyBox and has been named “Leading Voice in Commodities 2024” by Cititec

Finally, Laurent co-hosts the Award-winning “Redefining Energy” podcast (1.8m downloads)