Valérie Séjourné

Solar Heat Europe

Managing Director

With a communications and marketing background, Valérie Séjourné started her career in a couple of FMCG Companies, but also as Communication Officer the French energy transition agency in Ademe. She then gained almost 25 years of experience in Brussels, for the detergent industry association, leading sustainability & communications. Passionate about sustainable progress, energy transition, circular economy and stakeholders engagement, she joined Solar Heat Europe in April 2023 as Managing Director. Together with her team, she works for the deployment of solar heat to decarbonize heat needs in buildings and industry, handling both certification and research projects, awareness but also policy work at national, EU and international level. Solar Thermal technologies are represented in the SET Plan in a common Implementation Working group re-grouping both concentrated and non-concentrated technologies.