• TRADITIONAL BEGINNINGS
• ENTERS THE PRIVATE SECTOR
• EXECUTIVE ROLES AT AXA
• NAMED CHIEF OF AXA
• SOURCES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Chief executive officer, AXA Group

Nationality: French.

Born: August 15, 1954, in Bayonne, France.

Education: HEC School of Management, 1976, undergraduate business degree; law degree; École Nationale d'Administration, graduate, 1980.

Family: Married; children: three.

Career: French Finance Ministry Inspection Office, 1980–1984, auditor; French Treasury, 1984–1989, deputy secretary of the Interministerial Committee on Industrial Restructuring; AXA, 1989–1991, trained in many areas of insurance and then joined the corporate finance...