Nicolas J.A. Buchoud is a fellow of the Global Solutions Initiative (GSI, Berlin) and O.P. Jindal Global University Centre for Sustainability (Sonipat, India) and an honorary member of the Indonesian Creative Cities Network (ICCN). The co-chair of the Think-Tank 20 (T20) infrastructure investment and financing taskforce since 2019 and an expert with the Urban 20 (U20), Buchoud has formerly advised the President of Paris Ile de France Region, city mayors and public development banks in France and Europe on strategic and low-carbon planning.

In the past two decades, Buchoud has contributed to the development and outreach of advanced academic excellence programs in Japan, the Russian Federation (Siberia) and France on complex ecosystem transformations.
The president of the Grand Paris Alliance for Metropolitan Development (Cercle Grand Paris de l’Investissement Durable) an awarded not for profit think tank created in 2011 and the founding principal of Renaissance Urbaine strategic advisory, Buchoud regularly publishes books, policy-briefs and articles while organising scientific and public conferences and forums.

From directing low income, social housing neighborhoods regeneration projects to supporting cities and regions in global climate, economic and development talks, he learned valuable lessons on the state of globalisation through his engagement in built environment professional networks in Europe, the Commonwealth, Africa and the Americas, and with the United-Nations (UNECE, UN Habitat, HLPF).

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Buchoud has played a leading role in the launch of Intersecting (2020-2024), a global policy and system-change initiative involving over a hundred knowledge partners, foundations and partners across the globe.

He is an alumnus of Sciences Po (Public administration, 1999) and Sciences Po Paris post graduate school for urban affairs (2001) and has an MA on 17th century chinese history from Paris La Sorbonne, developed with the support of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay Saint-Cloud (1998, summa cum laude).