Universal Registration Document 2020

4.3.1 Members of the Executive Committee

On the filing date of this Universal Registration Document, the members of the Executive Committee were as follows:

Paul-Marie Dubée is the Secretary of the Executive Committee. He is Executive Coordinator, Government Relations.

(1)Béatrice Buffon replaced Marianne Laigneau from 10 February 2020.

(2)Alain Tranzer took office in April 2020.

4.3.2 Personal information on members of the Executive Committee

Marc Benayoun, 54 years old, a graduate of the École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales (ESSEC), began his career at Paribas Group in 1989, before joining the Boston Consulting Group in 1993. He became Partner and Managing Director at the Paris office in 2001 then at the Moscow office in 2008 and during this period held a range of responsibilities, including the development of skills within the Company in the natural gas sector. In 2009, he joined the EDF group as Economics, Tariffs and Prices Director, at the Commerce Division He was notably in charge of discussions related to changes in the French regulated electricity tariffs. In 2012, he became Director, Business Customers Market. In this role, he managed the project to end regulated electricity tariffs for companies and local communities, which resulted in EDF regaining its leadership position in a competitive environment. In 2016, Marc BENAYOUN was appointed Member of the Executive Committee of the EDF group, Gas and Italy. As such, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Edison, the third-largest Italian energy company. He also oversaw gas procurement activities for the EDF group, and managed its portfolio of long-term contracts for the transport of natural gas by pipeline and by sea (liquefied gas), as well as the assets needed to transport the gas to the delivery points. Since July 2019, Marc BENAYOUN is Group Senior Executive Vice-President, Customers, Services and Regions. In this capacity, he is heading the Commerce Division and supervises energy services related entities, including Dalkia. He is also a member of the EDF Trading Board of Directors, Chairman of the Edison Board of Directors and supervises EDF group gas procurement platform based in Italy.

Bruno Bensasson, 48 years old, is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and École des Mines of Paris. He began his career in 1998 at the ASN (i.e. French nuclear security authority) as head of a Regional Division (Lower and Upper Normandy) then as the Chief of Staff of the CEO. From 2004 to 2006, he was the technical adviser responsible for the environment, new energies and nuclear energy at the office of the French Minister for Industry, then technical adviser at the General Secretariat of the office of the President of the French Republic in charge of industry, the environment and transport. He joined SUEZ in 2007 as Director of Economic Studies at the Department of Development and Strategy. In 2011, he became a member of GDFSUEZ’s Executive Committee as Director for Strategy and Sustainable Development. He was appointed CEO of GDF SUEZ Energie France in early 2013 and, in July 2014, became the Vice-President of GDF SUEZ Energie Europe in charge of development and renewable generation. Since 2016, he has been the CEO of
Energie Afrique. In May 2018, Bruno Bensasson became the EDF group Senior Executive Vice-President responsible for Renewable Energies and the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of EDF Renewables. He is a Director of Luminus and EDF Trading.

Béatrice Buffon, 46 years old, is a graduate from both the École Polytechnique and the École nationale des ponts et chaussées. She began her career as Finance Manager at COGETHERM, an EDF subsidiary specialized in the development of Combined Heat and Power (CHP) projects. In 2001, she joined SIIF Energies, which later became EDF Renewables, where she would take up office as Project Director in2003. From 2007 to 2009, she undertook the functions of Deputy Executive Director of POWEO Energies Renewables. She returned to EDF Renewables in 2010 asDirector of Development for large-scale, ground-mounted solar power projects; then in 2011, she became Director of Development for Offshore Wind Power France. In 2014, Béatrice Buffon became Executive Vice-President of EDF Renewables, in charge of renewable marine energies and a member of the EDF Renewables Executive Committee. She is a chevalier de l’Ordre national du mérite. Since February 2020, she has been Group Executive Director in charge of EDF’s International Division.

Christophe Carval, 60 years old, holds a degree in electrical engineering from
HEI Lille engineering school, and joined the EDF group in 1982. He has held several management positions in Departmental, Regional and Inter-regional Units in the electricity and gas distribution sector. In 2007, he was appointed to head up the project to create then manage the new Shared Services Division of the EDF group, aiming at rationalising and professionalising this Division. He was the Director of Human Resources, Health & Safety and the Enedis Transformation project from 2014. In this capacity, he has notably led projects to simplify the Company’s structure into 25 Regional Divisions and to overhaul its governance system. Since July 2017, he has held the position of Group Senior Executive Vice-President, Human ResourcesDivision. He is also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Enedis and a member of theSupervisory Boards of RTE, CTE, Framatome and EDF Energy.