Frederic Clerc is the interim Managing Director of the Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, NYC's longest-running innovation hub for climatetech startups. He also leads the Carbon to Value Initiative, an innovation program focused on supporting carbontech startups. In his past role with EnVertis, he worked with multinational corporations and governments to identify and evaluate low-carbon business models and technology opportunities, from pilot to commercial scale across various industries including forest-products, agriculture, chemicals and oil and gas in Canada, US, Brazil and Europe. Prior to that, Frederic managed large corporate transformation programs with BearingPoint, a leading European business and technology consultancy. He started his career as a product engineer with Assima, a growth-stage software startup. Frederic holds a Masters of Engineering in Energy and Sustainable Development from the Chemical Engineering department at Polytechnique Montreal, Canada (2016), as well as a graduate engineer degree from the National Institute of Applied Science in Rennes, France (2005).