Alexandre Laure (Apprentice 2009) for Green Bio Energy: nominee for the Socially Responsible Organisation 2013

Alexandre Laure was on EDHEC’s apprenticeship track for NGO management from 2007 to 2009. After his graduation, he worked for the United Nations in Ethiopia and then, as development projects manager, for the French embassy in Uganda.

In 2011, with Vincent Kienzler, he founded Green Bio Energy, a company specialising in the transformation of waste in Uganda. By turning organic residue into charcoal, Green Bio Energy has become the market leader for renewable household fuels in Uganda.
Two years after its creation, this small company employs about twenty people and sells three hundred kilos of charcoal a day, all while using clean energy and local resources.In 2012, Green Bio Energy was awarded the Suez Environnement Initiatives prize.

Green Bio Energy website: www.greenbioenergy.org
Briketi website: briketi.co.ug

The award
Created last year, this prize is awarded to a business, association or NGO that has placed values of citizenship and social and environmental responsibility at the heart of its activity. Open to everyone, it promotes active solidarity. The winning organisation’s commitment will have had a strong impact on its staff, boosting their performance and their motivation. The manager of the winning entity does not have to be an Edhec alumnus but there must be at least one Edhec alumnus on the staff.
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The vote
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