Universal Registration Document 2021

4.3 Executive Management

The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is assisted by an Executive Committee which includes representatives of all the Group’s lines of business.

This Committee is a decision-making body, a forum for discussion and a consultative body on the operational and strategic issues for the Group. It examines all the substantive and current files of significance to the Group, tracks the operating objectives and results and contributes to the management and forecasting of the major challenges for the EDF group. It reviews and authorises significant projects, specifically the Group’s investment or divestment projects for amounts which exceed certain thresholds, in accordance, where appropriate, with the governance of the Group’s listed subsidiaries. The Executive Committee meets each week.

In order to reinforce the examination and follow-up of projects, an Executive Committee Commitments Committee examines in-depth the most significant projects in terms of level of commitments or risks incurred before the Executive Committee makes its decision. No investment project may be submitted for review by the Board of Directors without having first been approved by this Committee.

On the date of filing of this Universal Registration Document, the Executive Committee comprises thirteen members and a Secretary. The list of members and their personal information appear below.

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 Group Senior Vice-President Secretary of the Executive Committee. He is Executive Coordinator, Government Relations.

4.3.2 4.3.2 Personal information on members of the Executive Committee

Marc Benayoun, 55 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 Associate Director at the Paris office in 2001 then at the Moscow office in 2008. During this period held a range of responsibilities, including the development of skills and business in the Company in the natural gas sector. In 2009, he joined the EDF group as Economics, Tariffs and Prices Director, in 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 has been Group Senior Executive Vice-President, Customers, Services and Regions. In this capacity, he heads 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 the EDF group gas procurement platform based in Italy.

Bruno Bensasson, 49 years old, is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and École des Mines of Paris. He began his career in 1998 at the Autorité de sûreté nucléaire (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 with responsibility for industry, the environment and transport. He joined SUEZ in 2007 as Director of Economic Studies in the Department of Development and Strategy. In 2011, he became a member of the Executive Committee of GDF SUEZ as Director for Strategy and Sustainable Development. He was appointed CEO of GDF SUEZ Energie France in early 2013 and, in July 2014, became Vice-President of GDF SUEZ Energie Europe responsible for development and renewable energy generation. Since 2016, he has been the CEO of Engie Africa. Since May 2018, Bruno Bensasson has been the EDF group Senior Executive Vice-President responsible for Renewable Energies and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EDF Renewables. He is a Director of Luminus and EDF Trading.

Béatrice Buffon, 47 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 specialising 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 Manager in 2003. From 2007 to 2009, she undertook the functions of Deputy Executive Director of POWEO Energies Renewables. She returned to EDF Renewables in 2010 as Director 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, responsible for 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 responsible for EDF’s International Division.