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Marine Le Louarn-SmailML

Marine Le Louarn-Smail

Senior Biodiversity Expert

€700/day
Marseille, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Marine

Doctor of Ecology and independent biodiversity consultant, I help ESG/CSR consulting firms, engineering consultancies, renewable energy developers, and companies to robustly integrate biodiversity into their projects and strategies.

My expertise combines applied research, fieldwork, impact assessments, ERC sequence, GIS, renewable energy, ecological modeling, and biodiversity strategy.

I provide punctual or ongoing support for: CSRD / ESRS E4, TNFD, impacts/dependencies, biodiversity action plans, review of studies, ecological diagnostics, mapping of issues, training, and technical validation of deliverables.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Marseille (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Ecotopia Environnement
    Founder & Senior Biodiversity Consultant
    ENVIRONMENTAL
    January 2022 - Today (4 years and 7 months)
    Marseille, France
    Independent ecological consultancy for private clients and environmental consultancies, with a strong focus on renewables, infrastructure, planning and regulatory biodiversity work.
    • - Scoping, literature review, field surveys, ecological constraints analysis, impact assessment, mitigation hierarchy, mapping and regulatory reporting.
    • - Ecological chapters of impact assessments, additional regulatory notes, construction monitoring and compensation monitoring.
    • - Wind, agrivoltaic, railway, urban and territorial projects where biodiversity risks must be robustly documented and managed.
    • - Client relationship, quality control, technical writing, subcontracting and commercial positioning.
    Biodiversity Environmental Law GIS CSR Strategy
  • Biotope
    Ecological Compensation Specialist
    February 2026 - April 2026 (2 months)
    Rinxent, France
    Specialist assignment on ecological compensation, environmental studies, project management assistance and operational project constraints.
    • - Regulatory and environmental studies including ecological compensation, project management assistance and client - facing work.
    • - Contribution to feasibility, additionality, mitigation hierarchy and biodiversity compensation issues.
  • ARTELIA
    Environmental / Biodiversity Project Manager
    January 2021 - January 2023 (2 years)
    Lyon, France
    Management of national and international environmental projects within a major engineering consultancy.
    • - Coordinated multi-stakeholder environmental projects: client relations, technical deliverables, field ecology and regulatory studies.
    • - Balanced technical, regulatory, schedule and ecological constraints in complex projects.
    • - Produced diagnostics, analyses and deliverables for multidisciplinary teams and clients.

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Education

  • PhD in Urban Ecology
    MNHN / Aix-Marseille University
    2017
    PhD in Urban Ecology
  • Master - Disturbed Ecosystems
    Aix-Marseille University
    2014
    Master - Disturbed Ecosystems

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