Michel has worked in foreign direct investment (FDI) for 25 years and is co-founder of two consulting firms specialising in international corporate expansion. He has engaged in corporate location work globally and supported Helsinki Business Hub (the regional development agency for Helsinki region) from 2007 to 2021. He’s been involved in mentoring programmes for different cities, regions and countries around the world and has a passion for helping locations in developing strategy and implementation towards FDI attraction, expansion and retention. Michel is Franco/British(and Irish), studied European Business Administration in London and Reims and was one of the very first beneficiaries of the ERASMUS program.