Since 2019, Xavier TESSIER heads the strategy of Bpifrance towards Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Investors. A such, he represents Bpifrance in the various fora gathering SWF as in particular, the International Forum of SWF, the Institutional Investors Roundtable and the One Planet SWF. From 2012 to 2018, He was co-founder and COO of CDC International Capital, a subsidiary of the French Caisse des Dépots dedicated to investment partnerships with sovereign wealth funds. Previously, Xavier TESSIER was Director for European and International affairs of the French market authority (Autorité des marches financiers) where he participated to the creation of an integrated European supervisory and regulatory mechanism and to the strengthening of an international framework of capital markets regulators after the 2008 crisis. Xavier TESSIER is graduated from Sciences Po Paris and the University of Law of Paris II. He is knight of the Merit Order.