Catherine Helleux holds a double Master of Science in Management from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Paris, France and Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand. She joined Societe Generale in 2004, working first within the infrastructure structured finance group and later joining the energy structured financed group where she focuses on conventional power, renewable power, transmission, biofuels, LNG and oil projects in , in Canada, USA, Chile, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Peru and Brazil.