Ms. Ahlem Friga NoyCountry Chair, Managing Director & Chairperson - Total Energies Gas, Renewables & Power India

Ahlem Friga-Noy is a seasoned public affairs, geopolitical adviser, and negotiation expert with 20 years’ experience, in the public and private sector.
She has held various leadership positions in TotalEnergies, as Country Chair and Managing Director of TotalEnergies E&P Kazakhstan, Vice President Public Affairs – Africa Division for TotalEnergies, based in Uganda, Corporate Affairs Manager at Total E&P Uganda.
Before joining TotalEnergies, Ahlem was Advisor on Sub-Sahara Africa to the French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs and to the French Minister for Cooperation.
Formerly, she has held several positions in the field of multilateral diplomacy: as First Secretary at the Embassy of France in Chad (N'Djamena), Political Advisor and Representative of the Special Envoy of the European Union for Darfur-Darfur Dialogue (Khartoum), participating to peace talks, Political Attaché of the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations for Sudan.
Ahlem speaks English, Italian, Arab, and Swahili and holds a master’s degree in Public Law and bachelor’s In International Law.