ENGIE has appointed Jacques Boonen as Country Manager for Southeast Asia and Jules Dufournier as Managing Director of Supply and Energy Management for Asia Pacific, with both changes effective 1 July 2026. The moves, announced on 30 June 2026, refresh the leadership of the French energy group across two of its key regional mandates.
Boonen takes on the Southeast Asia country role in addition to his existing responsibilities as Managing Director of Local Energy Infrastructures for the region. He joined ENGIE in 2008 and has since held senior leadership positions across Europe, North America and Asia within the group's low carbon energy business, experience that spans both mature and fast growing markets. His expanded brief reflects the group's intent to keep its infrastructure and country leadership closely aligned as it pursues energy transition projects across the region.
Dufournier assumes leadership of the Supply and Energy Management activities for Asia Pacific, a function that covers the group's energy trading, sourcing and portfolio management across the region. The role is central to how ENGIE manages price risk and secures supply for its customers, and it places Dufournier at the heart of the commercial engine that supports the group's generation and infrastructure assets.
Both appointments follow the departure of Varun Gujral, who had previously held both the Southeast Asia country manager position and the chief executive role for Supply and Energy Management in Asia Pacific. By splitting those responsibilities between two leaders, ENGIE has separated its regional country stewardship from its energy management function, a structure that gives each area dedicated senior focus. The transition is presented as an orderly succession designed to preserve continuity across the group's Asian operations.
ENGIE is a global energy and services group headquartered in France, active in low carbon power generation, energy infrastructure, and supply and energy management. Southeast Asia represents a region of contrasting energy systems, where each country carries its own generation mix, pace of demand growth and policy priorities, and where the group is positioning itself as a partner in the shift toward lower carbon power.
The dual appointment underscores the importance ENGIE attaches to the Asia Pacific market within its wider strategy. Placing an experienced infrastructure leader at the head of the Southeast Asia country organisation, while entrusting the region's energy management to a dedicated managing director, signals a structure built for both project delivery and commercial discipline as the group scales its presence across the region.
