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Jérôme Contamine graduated from École Polytechnique and École
Nationale d’Administration and is a special advisor to the French
Audit Commission (Cour des Comptes).
Pierre-Alain De Smedt is qualified as a Sales Engineer and holds
a Commercial and Financial Sciences degree from the Université
Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. He began his career in 1966 in the
IT Department of Solvay before joining Bosch Belgium in 1971 as
Financial Director responsible for Purchasing, Logistics, Organization
and IT. He was appointed to the same position within the Volkswagen
group in 1973 and in 1985 was nominated Chairman of the Board
of Directors of the Volkswagen subsidiary responsible for logistics,
purchasing, organization and IT. In 1988, he became a Director of
Tractebel and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the electricity
companies Ebes, Intercom and Unerg.
In 1991, Pierre-Alain De Smedt was appointed Managing Director of
Autolatina – the leading Latin American private company and a joint
venture between Volkswagen and Ford – and in 1997 he was named
Chairman of Seat, a subsidiary of the Volkswagen group.
In 1999, he joined Renault as Executive Vice-President, Industry and
Technology and is currently a member of the Executive Committee
of the Renault Group and of the Renault/Nissan Alliance Board.
In 2006, he also took on the role of Chairman of FEBIAC (the Belgian
Federation of the Car and Two-wheeler Industries).
Lord Jay of Ewelme is an independent member of the House of
Lords. He is also a non-executive Director of Associated British Foods
(ABF) and Candover Investments Plc, a member of the European
Union Sub-Committee on Law and Institutions and the House of Lords
Select Committee on International Institutions, a member of GLOBE
(an interparliamentary group on climate change), Vice-Chairman
of Business for New Europe, Chairman of the international medical
charity, Merlin and a Director of Crédit Agricole.
Between 2002 and 2006 he held the position of Permanent Under-
Secretary at the United Kingdom Foreign Office and in this role was
Head of the Diplomatic Service.
In 2005 and 2006 he served as the UK Prime Minister’s personal
representative at the G8 summits at Gleneagles and St.
Petersburg.
Lord Jay of Ewelme is an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College,
Oxford.
Philippe Guédon has been Managing Partner of Espace
Développement since 2003.
He joined Simca in 1956 as an After-Sales Service Engineer and
went on to become a Research Engineer until 1965. He then
joined Matra, where he also held the post of Research Engineer,
and subsequently Technical Director until 1983. In that year he was
appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Matra – a post
he occupied until 2003.
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Philippe Guédon was the designer of the Matra 530, the Bagheera,
the Rancho, the Murena, the Espace and the Avantime.
He graduated as an engineer from the Arts et Métiers school in
Angers, France in 1956.
Helle Kristoffersen is Vice President, Corporate Strategy and
Secretary of the Strategy Committee of the Alcatel-Lucent group.
In 1994 she joined what was previously the Alcatel group as Head
of Financial Operations.
Between 1989 and 1991 she worked as an analyst in the mergers
and acquisitions department at Banque Lazard & Cie before joining
the Bolloré group where she held the following positions: Deputy
Financial Director responsible for mergers and acquisitions, Head of
Operational Strategy for the Maritime Division and Head of Mergers
and Acquisitions reporting to the Chairman and CEO.
Helle Kristoffersen is a graduate of École Normale Supérieure and of
École Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Économique
(ENSAE). She also holds a Masters degree in Econometrics from
Sorbonne University Paris I.
Georges Pauget has spent his entire career with the Crédit Agricole
group where he has held the positions of Chief Executive Officer
and Chairman of the Executive Committee since September 2005.
He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of LCL – Le Crédit
Lyonnais, Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Remuneration
Committee of Calyon, Vice-Chairman and member of the Executive
Committee of the French Banking Federation (FBF) and permanent
representative of Crédit Lyonnais for the Fondation de France.
Earlier in his career he served as Chairman of the Union des
Assurances Fédérales, TLJ SAS, Uni-Editions (SAS), CEDICAM (GIE),
and SERVICAM (SAS). He has also held the following other positions:
permanent representative of Crédit Agricole SA on the Supervisory
Board of Fonds de Garantie des Dépôts, Chief Executive Officer of
Crédit Lyonnais, Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief
Operating Officer of LCL – Le Crédit Lyonnais, and member of the
Executive Committee and Director of the Caisse Régionale Division
of Crédit Agricole SA.
Georges Pauget was awarded a doctorate in Economics from the
University of Bordeaux in 1975 and holds a Masters in Economics
(with an econometrics option) from the University of Lyon.
Erich Spitz joined Compagnie Générale de TSF in 1958 (since
renamed Thomson-CSF). He began his career with the company
as Director of the Central Research Laboratory before becoming
Research and Development Director of the Thomson Group from
1983 to 1994.
Eric Spitz graduated from Prague Polytechnic University and holds
a doctorate in science.
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