Nicolas J.A. Buchoud is a fellow of the Global Solutions Initiative (GSI, Berlin) and an honorary member of the Indonesian Creative Cities Network (ICCN). He has been named as Special Envoy for IMEEC by RIS, a New Delhi-based think. The co-chair of the Think-Tank 20 (T20) infrastructure investment and financing taskforce since 2019 and an expert with the Urban 20 (U20), Buchoud served as the president of the Grand Paris Alliance for Metropolitan Development (Cercle Grand Paris de l’Investissement Durable), an awarded not-for-profit think tank and the founding principal of Renaissance Urbaine strategic advisory.  He regularly publishes books, policy-briefs and articles.