Prof. Victoire de Margerie is Executive Chairman/Reference Shareholder of Rondol Industrie, a deep technology startup that develops extrusion machinery for drug formulations and other high tech applications. Since 2022 she joined the Board of Ivanhoe Electric (Mining) and since 2023 she also chairs the Technology and Growth Committee on the Board of Verkor (EV batteries). Prof. de Margerie has spent 35 years in the Materials Industry in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, first as an Executive and since 2003 also as a Board Director (now Ivanhoe Electric and Verkor, previously Arkema, Eurazeo, Babcock, Italcementi, Morgan Ceramics, Outokumpu & Norsk Hydro). Prof. de Margerie is Founder and Co Chair of the World Materials Forum since 2014, she was elected an Academician at the National Academy of Technologies of France in 2019 and she joined the board of Mines ParisTech in 2021. She graduated from HEC Paris and Sciences Po Paris and holds a PhD in Management from Université de Paris 2.