Claire Roborel De Climens

Global Head of Private & Alternative Investments at BNP Paribas Wealth Management

Speaker

After joining BNP Paribas Wealth Management in 2004, Claire ROBOREL de CLIMENS set up the Private Equity Group. In 2010, she was appointed Head of Private Investments in charge of Private Credit and Real Assets alongside her Private Equity role. Then, in 2015, she became Head of Private and Alternative Investments, adding the Hedge Funds, Strategic-A (asset allocation service), Philanthropy Advisory (until 2023) and Agrifrance activities to her scope of responsibility.

Claire has been recognised for her exceptional contribution to the development of private assets in wealth management. Among other, she was named “Best Personality of the Year – Fund Selector” at the IPEM Wealth Awards in January 2026.

Claire sits on the board of Global General Partner (part of the BNP Paribas Group), the AIFM manager of Private Assets feeder funds, as well as on the Advisory Boards of various international Private Equity, Infrastructure and Real Estate funds.

Prior to joining BNP Paribas Wealth Management, Claire worked for ten years at PAI Partners, a leading pan-European Private Equity firm, first as a manager in the Finance Department, then in Investor Relations, and finally as Principal in the General Industrials sector where she worked on several LBO transactions.

Claire started her career as an auditor at Ernst & Young where she worked for six years for large industrial groups and Private Equity funds. Claire ROBOREL de CLIMENS is a graduate of the EMLyon business school.