Graduate in European law from Strasbourg university and in European Policies and Governance from the Collège d’Europe in Bruges (Belgium), and currently studying at the School of Public Affairs at Sciences Po, Paris where she is on release from Schneider Electric France, Eloïse Ryon specialises in French and European lobbying, with particular interest in energy and environmental policies. She wrote a thesis, subsequently published by the Wilfried Martens Centre for European studies, entitled “European strategic autonomy: Energy at the heart of European security?”.
Eloïse Ryon is also the President of a European non-governmental organization, Young European Leadership (YEL), run by and for young people. YEL’s activities are diverse and will become even more so, in order to give young people wider opportunities to be heard. Among its most important activities YEL recruits, trains and supports the participation of European delegations, comprising young professionals or students, at COP26, G7 and Young Entrepreneurs G20.