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From 1995 to 2021, Franc worked for the industrial group Air Liquide (AL). From 2010, his work focused on the incubation of new activities serving the energy transition, in particular biogas and hydrogen. In 2012, he created ALIAD, the Air Liquide Group’s venture capital fund. In 2017, he created the Group’s global Hydrogen Energy business line and hydrogen media, cH2ange.
On the occasion of COP21, in 2015, he published Hydrogen: the energy transition on the move! with a preface written by Pascal Lamy. In 2017, he published with Michel Calef Entreprise et bien commun, with a preface by Gaël Giraud.
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