Henri Poupart-Lafarge was born on 10 April 1969, in Nancy. He is a French business executive and the current

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

Alstom Alstom SA is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer operating worldwide in rail transport markets, active in the fields of passenger transportation, signalling, and locomotives, with products including the AGV, TGV, Eurostar, Avelia ...

, a post which he has occupied since February 2016. After acquiring degrees from

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École des ponts ParisTech École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

, and

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, he went to work for the

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. In 1994, he joined the

French Ministry for the Economy and Finance The Ministry of Economics, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty (french: Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté industrielle et numérique, pronounced ), informally referred to as Bercy, is one of the most impor ...

. By 1998, he became Alstom's Head of Investor Relations. Then, he became the Vice President of Distribution Finance. Before occupying the position of Alstom's CEO, Henri Poupart-Lafarge was successively Chief Financial Officer of Alstom and President of two sectors of the Alstom Group, Alstom Grid for one year, then, Alstom Transport for five years.''Alstom - Henri Poupart-Lafarge''
alstom.com, reviewed 28 September 2017

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