Simon Brossard

Partner

Simon Brossard joined Hystra a few years after the company’s creation, in 2012. Since then, he has been at the forefront of several flagship initiatives that have impacted the lives of millions of low-income and vulnerable people. Simon designed and led the first Secretariat of the Toilet Board Coalition, a Unilever-initiated global alliance for universal access to sanitation which has served over 70 million customers. He spearheaded the energy access practice, contributing seminal insights to our "Reaching scale in Access to Energy" report and working on the ground in rural Ivory Coast as interim COO, to launch the operations of Baobab+.

Simon also crafted a dozen partnerships for impact, including several private sector engagements with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the fields of nutrition and menstrual hygiene. Finally, Simon is key to Hystra's work on impact investing, having helped Sanofi in launching their impact fund, for which we now provide due diligence and technical assistance support.

Prior to Hystra, Simon had worked for a microfinance institution in India, a medical startup in New York, and Société Générale in Paris. Simon holds a Masters in Management from ESSEC, a Masters in Development Economics from the Paris School of Economics, and has been a visiting student in the PhD track in economics at UC Berkeley.