Valérie Anne Lencznar

Valérie Anne Lencznar

Valérie Anne Lencznar

Vice Chair
Global Smart Grid Federation (GSGF)
Event(s): Roundtable A ACE

The board of the GSGF unanimously elected Valérie Anne Lencznar from Think Smartgrids, France as Vice Chairperson on July 11th 2019. Mrs. Lencznar is currently the Managing Director of Think Smartgrids, the professional association federating the french smart grids ecosystem.

Valérie Anne Lencznar is a communication (CELSA- Paris Sorbonne university) and Executive MBA (HEC) graduate. She has worked and led as a Communication Director in various public structures. She joined the Energy sector 20 years ago, as the Communication Director of the main nuclear power plant in Europe situated in the northern part of France, then she worked on the expansion of EDF group communication and brand in Poland, Hungary and continental countries.

From 2009 until 2015, she became general secretary of the Franco-Spanish joint venture Inelfe. Inelfe consisted in building underground electricity interconnection between Perpignan and Figueras, a world first, with a total budget of 700 million euros. Launched in 2015, this transmission line doubles the electric capacity between France and Spain and prefigured the setting up of smart grids transportation in Europe.