Alexandre Affre is Deputy Director General, responsible for the Industrial Affairs, Entrepreneurship & SMEs department and the ASGroup at BusinessEurope. In this role since 2020, Alexandre is responsible for coordinating the organisation’s positions on industrial strategy, energy, climate, environment, research and innovation, as well as entrepreneurship and SMEs. He is also managing the corporate Advisory and Support Group (ASGroup) of BusinessEurope. The ASGroup regroups a selection of companies from all sectors of activity. Alexandre joined BusinessEurope in 2007. Prior to that, he worked at the wildlife trade monitoring network of WWF and IUCN. Alexandre is a trained scientist and holds a Master in ecology from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie.