Universal Registration Document 2021

Position held within the Company

Director appointed by the Shareholders’ Meeting on recommendation of the French State

Date of appointment to the Board

16 May 2019

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)

Chairman of the Nuclear
Commitments Monitoring
Committee

Shares held

0

Nationality

French

A graduate as a General Engineer from Mines ParisTech Engineering School, former student at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (IEP) and the National School of Administration (ENA), Gilles Denoyel was appointed Inspector of Public Finances at the Ministry for the Economy & Finance in 1981 before joining the Treasury Department in 1985, where he was successively in charge of the CIRI (Interministerial Committee for Industrial Restructuring), the Financial Markets Bureau, the Insurance Sub-Directorate and, ultimately, the privatisation programme. In 1996, he joined the CCF group as Chief Financial Officer, then General Secretary in charge of Strategy and Operations, then Senior Executive Vice-President in charge of Finance: in this capacity, he played a significant part in the integration of CCF into the HSBC group. In 2004, he was appointed Director Deputy Chief Executive Officer, successively in charge of central functions, asset management and insurance, and then of all risk and control functions and relations with regulatory authorities. From 2015 to 2017, he was HSBC’s International Institutional Relations President for Europe. He was also Chairman of the group of banks under foreign control in France from 2006 to 2016 and Treasurer of the Association française des banques (i.e. French banking association) from 2004 to 2016. Gilles Denoyel has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dexia and Dexia Crédit Local since May 2018, and a member of the Supervisory Board of Memo Bank and of Rothschild & Cie since January 2018 and May 2020 respectively.

Other offices and positions held

Principal position held outside the Company

• Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dexia and Dexia Crédit Local

Expired offices held outside the Company over the past five years

In France

• None

Position held within the Company

Director appointed by the Shareholders’ Meeting on recommendation of the French State

Date of appointment to the Board

7 May 2012

Last re-elected

6 May 2021

Expiry of current term of office

Shareholders’ Meeting called to approve the financial statements for the fiscal year closing 31 December 2024

Other position(s)

Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Nuclear Commitments Monitoring Committee

Shares held

0

Nationality

French

A former student of the École Polytechnique and the National School of Administration (ENA), Marie-Christine Lepetit joined the Inspectorate General of Finances in 1987, where she held auditing and advisory positions. In 1991, she was recruited by Jean Lemierre to the Directorate General for Tax in order to introduce management control. In 1995, she was in charge of work review at the tax law department before joining the office of the Prime Minister, Alain Juppé, as technical advisor in tax matters and macroeconomic studies then taxation and SMEs from 1995 to 1997. She continued her career at the General Directorate for Tax, working to improve service quality (pre-filled tax returns, remote procedures, certification). Appointed Director of Tax Law at the Ministry for the Economy and Finance in 2004, in this capacity she pushed through tax reforms from 2004 to 2012. At the same time, she co-chaired the working group on reform of the financing of social welfare in 2006 and co-signed the report by the conference of experts on the “energy-climate contribution” chaired by Michel Rocard. She also sat on the Local Authorities Reform Committee chaired by Edouard Balladur as Executive Director and was a member of the Public Life Renewal and Ethics Commission chaired by Lionel Jospin. She has been Head of the Inspectorate General of Finances since March 2012, and now reports to the Minister for the Economy, Finance and Recovery.

Other offices and positions held

Principal position held outside the Company

• Head of the Inspectorate General of Finance at the Ministry for the Economy, Finance and Recovery

Expired offices held outside the Company over the past five years

In France

• None