Ludovic jointed UNEP Chemicals and Waste GEF team in 2015 and he coordinated the development of the mercury portfolio including the first programme under this focal area: planetGOLD. He acted as officer in charge of the unit during COVID and from 2021 to 2023, leading the team into growing the portfolio.
From early 2023 to October 2025, Ludovic has been the head of the Knowledge and Risk Unit in the Chemicals and Health Branch of UNEP where he supervised a multidisciplinary team working closely with academics and experts on gathering scientific and technical information on current and emerging pollution issues to provide policy advice to constituencies.
Before joining UNEP, Ludovic worked 12 years in UNIDO where he developed and led the organisation’s mercury programme, refined and implemented tools to improve water management and reduce pollution from key industrial sectors (textile, tourism, food processing) and initiated the organisation’s ecocities programme. Ludovic also worked 3 years at the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Macquarie University in Sydney where he participated to studies on greenhouse gases emissions from coal mines and led research on atmospheric organic pollution in urban environment.
