Universal Registration Document 2020

4. Corporate governance

 Laurence PARISOT, 61 years old
Position held within the Company

Director appointed by the Shareholders’ Meeting

Date of appointment to the Board

23 November 2014

Last re-elected

16 May 2019

Expiry of current term of office

Shareholders’ Meeting called to approve the financial statements for the fiscal year closing 31 December 2020

Other position(s)

Member of the Strategy Committee and member of the Corporate Responsibility Committee

Shares held

137

Nationality

French

Holder of a Master’s degree in Public Law from Université Nancy II, graduate from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (IEP) and holder of an MAS in Political Studies from the IEP, Laurence Parisot joined in 1985, as survey manager, the Louis Harris Survey Institute. She became Chief Executive Officer in 1986. In 1990, she was appointed Chair & Chief Executive Officer of the IFOP (i.e. French Institute of Public Opinion), in which she gradually acquired the majority of the capital. Having sold IFOP, she led the Cabinet Gradiva for a short period, and was then appointed Chair and Managing Director of Citi bank France in 2018. Laurence Parisot was Chair of MEDEF (i.e. the French Business Confederation) from 2005 to 2013. She is also a Director of Fives and Paris Europlace, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques (FNSP) (i.e. the French National Foundation of Political Science).

Other offices and positions held
Principal position held outside the Company
  • Chair and Managing Director of Citi bank France

Office/Position

Title

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Director

Director

Title

Paris Europlace

Director

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France

Director

Director

Title

Fives

Director

Country

 

 

France

Director

Director

Title

Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (FNSP)

Director

Country

 

 

France

Expired offices held outside the Company over the past five years
In France
  • Manager and Associate Director of Gradiva
  • Deputy Chair of the Executive Board of the IFOP group
  • Chair of the Scientific Committee of Fondapol
  • Director of BNP Paribas
  • Director of Foxintelligence
Claire PEDINI, 55 years old
Position held within the Company

Director appointed by the Shareholders’ Meeting

Date of appointment to the Board

12 May 2016

Date of re-election

7 May 2020

Expiry of current term of office

Shareholders’ Meeting called to approve the financial statements for the fiscal year closing 31 December 2022

Other position(s)

Chair of the Corporate Responsibility Committee and member of the Appointments, Remuneration & Governance Committee

Shares held

0

Nationality

French

Claire Pedini is a graduate of the HEC business school and holds a Master’s degree in Media Management from the ESC Paris business school. In 1988, she joined Total as Corporate Controller. She assumed responsibility for Total’s admission to trading on the New York Stock Exchange in 1991, and became Head of the Financial Communication of the company in 1992, Executive manager of the Media Relations in 1994 and Head of New Information Technologies department in 1997. In 1998, she joined Alcatel as Chief of Financial communication, becoming successively Head of the Financial communication and institutional relations in 2001, Deputy Chief Financial Officer in 2004, Executive manager of Human Resources and Corporate Communications and member of the Executive Committee in 2006, Head of Human Resources, Corporate Communications and Real Estate in 2007, and Executive Vice-President of Human Resources and Transformation, of Alcatel-Lucent in 2009. Claire Pedini was a Director of Arkema from 2010to 2016. She joined the
Saint-Gobain group in June 2010 as Senior Vice-President in charge of Human Resources. She has been Senior Vice-President, Human Resources and Digital Transformation since January 2019.

Other offices and positions held
Principal position held outside the Company
  • Senior Vice-President Human Resources and Digital Transformation for the
    Saint-Gobain Group – Member of the Executive Committee of Saint-Gobain

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Title

 

 

Country

 

 
None

None

Title

 

 

 

None

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Expired offices held outside the Company over the past five years
In France
  • Director of Arkema