Emilie Chalas

Urban planner Emilie Chalas began her professional career in local government as the Director General of Services for a town hall in Isère. In 2017, she entered politics as a woman of the people and became a member of parliament for the 3rd constituency of Isère.

She sat on the law commission, became rapporteur for the draft laws on water and sanitation, the transformation of the civil service, and then became a member of the special commission on Climate and Resilience. In 2020, she was the lead candidate in the municipal elections in Grenoble and has since sat on the municipal and metropolitan councils. In 2022, she joined the CARBON-SOLAR teams as project manager. She is in charge of the Made in France solar panel gigafactory project in Fos-sur-Mer.

In January 2025, she set up BLEU05, a consultancy firm specialising in urban planning and public relations for companies, and joined ESL RIVINGTON as a senior adviser, drawing on her knowledge and experience of local authorities, the French administration, political networks and current issues in the industry in France.