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IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026

4 Oct - 9 Oct 2026

Bella Center Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Marie-Benedicte Desvallon

Biography

Qualified as a Solicitor of Senior Courts of England & Wales and as an avocat at the Paris Bar, Marie-Bénédicte Desvallon if the founding partner of WAT & LAW. EXPERTISE : - UNECE : Expert for UNECE’s International PPP Center of Excellence - Member of the working group on off-grid PPP. - IUCN - French Committee - Commission Environmental law and policies PRACTICE: - International public-private partnership (PPP) in the emerging countries ( water, energy, natural resources and infrastructure sectors) - Criminal environmental law - Public Affairs EDUCATION Repressive Environmental law - Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne Paris Bar CPE/LPC – College of Law London (Qualification as a solicitor) DESS Management International Franco-Chinois – IAE Nantes - China Master in international business law – François Rabelais – Tours

Session

The thirsty cloud: navigating the water-energy nexus in the digital age of data centres

Wednesday 7 October (1615 - 1730)

B3 5+6, Level 0

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