Photo Catherine Merlet

Catherine Merlet

Director of Club Inno de l’Agro

My responsibilities

  • Promote Valorial’s activities
  • Grow and maintain the member network
  • Source relevant partners
  • Represent Valorial within the ecosystem

My passions in life

  • Yoga
  • Travel
  • Eating well (I’m a foodie…)
  • I’m an expert at organising last-minute drinks parties

If I were…

  • A dish: scallop carpaccio.
  • A kitchen utensil: a blender to mix ingredients together.
  • A sports item: a yoga mat (namaste).
  • An innovation: an iPad (I can’t live without mine).
  • A country: Italy (it’s beautiful, the food is good, there’s the sea, the sun, etc.).
  • A writer: Amélie Nothomb (apparently there’s a resemblance)
  • A cocktail: it can’t be a cocktail, just a glass of excellent wine
  • An item I would take to a desert island: my iPad, and of course there would be a 5G connection

My motto

“Do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you.”

My Proustian madeleine

The Galette! I still have a vivid image of my grandmother preparing it by the fireside on her farm.