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'', 04/05/2010 He served as the chief executive officer of .

Biography

Early life

Jean-Paul Chifflet was born in 1949 in

Tournon-sur-Rhône Tournon-sur-Rhône (; oc, Tornon) is a commune in the Ardèche department in southern France. It is one of the most populous commune in the Ardèche department, after Annonay, Aubenas, and Guilherand-Granges. Geography It is located on the ...

, Ardèche, France. He grew up on a farm. He failed his

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twice and passed it the third time. He graduated from the Institut des Hautes Finances de Paris. He played rugby union for FC Tournon-

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Career

In 1973, at the age of twenty-four, he joined Crédit Agricole. On 1 March 2010 he became its CEO, replacing

Georges Pauget Georges Pauget (born 1947) was the CEO of Crédit Agricole and LCL S.A. from 2005 to 2010. Biography Pauget was born in Rumilly, Haute-Savoie in 1947. He received an M.A. in Economics from the University of Lyon and a Ph.D. in 1975 from the Un ...

. As a result, he also became Chairman of Amundi and Pacifica. Chifflet died on 25 May 2017 when he fell from his self-propelled tractor while mowing his lawn.

References

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