Mélisande Henry is an International Business and Strategy Advisor with over 10 years of experience in Global Trade and inward investment promotion. She is also a Certified International Trade Professional (CITP). 

Prior to EDC, she worked for the French trade and investment agency, Business France, and advised more than 400 companies – French exporters, as well as Belgian, Dutch, Luxembourgish, American and Japanese investors – in their international growth expansion and export journey. Within the area of export advisory, she has worked intensively on market research and analysis, targets identification and qualification (retailers/e-tailers, wholesalers, distributors, agents, M&A targets, master franchisees) and BTOB events organization, mainly in the consumer goods and life sciences sectors. 

From the investment promotion perspective, she has worked closely with C-level executives in different industries such as Food and Beverage Processing industry, IOT, Transport industry, Pharmaceutical & Medical Devices industry, Smart manufacturing, creative industries, to support their greenfield or brownfield investment projects (grants screening, connections with key partners, competitive analysis, etc.).