Interviews
Alain Quinet
Chair of the Commission on the Value of Climate Action
Executive Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Affairs at SNCF Réseau
Since 2008, Alain Quinet has chaired the commissions of France Stratégie responsible for setting the reference value of carbon. His latest report, published in March 2025 and titled “The Value of Climate Action: A Framework for Assessment and Action,” is the result of a collaborative project involving Frédéric Cherbonnier and Christian Gollier (TSE).
"TSE experts have also been instrumental in promoting a simple yet essential idea: there can be no effective climate policy without proper assessment."
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Published in TSE Reflect, May 2026.
Matthieu Chabanel
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
SNCF Réseau
By supporting TSE research, particularly within the TSE Infrastructure & Network Center, the company helps to advance understanding of topics such as infrastructure pricing, climate adaptation, and the broader social value of rail. In this interview, CEO Matthieu Chabanel shares his views on the sector’s key challenges.
"Managing these two major specificities - regulation and unmonetized externalities - is where economists like those at TSE are most useful to us."
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Published in TSE Reflect, July 2025.