Pauline Durand

Pauline Durand is the Sustainability Excellence Manager at Saipol, the first business unit and agro-industrial pillar of Avril. She leads a team of experts committed to serving the environmental transition. 

She started her career within TotalEnergies where she held various positions. She developed her expertise in the biofuel sector, managing and developing a portfolio of various projects from biogas to biorefinery. In 2021, she joined the Nature Based Solution division, developing the economics modelling of this new business and then leading the Business Development and Operation in the Asia Pacific, Europe and North America areas – before joining in 2023.

Pauline graduated from AgroParisTech with an engineering degree in Agronomy and received a Master’s degree in Environmental Economics, Sustainable Development and Energy from IFP School in 2010.