Anne Lauvergeon

Non-executive director

Board director since November 2005

Board committees: Audit and Risk Committee

Anne Lauvergeon, aged 53, joined the Board in November 2005. She serves as a non-executive director of American Express Company and EADS N.V. and is also Chief Executive Officer of French advisory company, A.L.P. SAS and a Partner of investment firm, Efficiency Capital.  She was a non-executive director of GDF SUEZ from 2000-2012 and from 2001-2011, she served as Chief Executive Officer of AREVA Group, the leading French energy company.

Anne started her professional career in 1983 in the steel industry and in 1990 was named Adviser for Economic International Affairs at the French Presidency and Deputy Chief of its Staff in 1991.  In 1995 she became a Partner of Lazard Freres & Cie, subsequently joining Alcatel Telecom as Senior Executive Vice President in March 1997, where she was responsible for international activities and the Group's industrial shareholdings in the energy and nuclear fields.