François-Régis has around 30 years of international experience in the oil & gas industry. He is seconded to IOGP from TotalEnergies, where he was Vice President for Oil & Gas Advocacy. His career took him from reservoir engineering in Europe and Africa, to gas and power business development in the UK and Northern Europe, a senior advisory role in the World Bank’s Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership, and TotalEnergies’ European Affairs activities in Brussels.

In 2011, François-Régis also founded GasNaturally, a now well-established Brussels-based partnership representing the entire European gas value chain, where he served four terms as Chairman and was instrumental in formulating the industry’s position on ‘the future of gas in a post-COP21 environment’.