Jean-Marc Janaillac (born 26 April 1953) is a French businessman best known for being a former

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Early life and education

Janaillac was born on 26 April 1953 in Saint-Sulpice-de-Roumagnac, a village in the

Dordogne Dordogne ( , or ; ; oc, Dordonha ) is a large rural department in Southwestern France, with its prefecture in Périgueux. Located in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region roughly half-way between the Loire Valley and the Pyrenees, it is named af ...

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, in southwest France. Janaillac holds a

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in law. He graduated from

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in 1975 and the

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– a graduate school entrusted with the selection and initial training of senior French officials – in 1980.Le Monde article (in French)
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Career

Career in public servive

From 1980 to 1983, Janaillac was chief of staff for the prefects of

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(

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in western France) and then Val-d'Oise (

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). From 1983 to 1984, he was head of staff for the Secretary of State for Tourism.Janaillac biography (in French) on the Caisse des dépôts site
/ref> From 1984 to 1987, he served as general manager of the French Tourist Office in New York.

Career in the private sector

Janaillac spent ten years from 1987 to 1997 as general manager of Maison de la France, an economic interest grouping created to promote tourism in France. During this time span, he was also an

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board member (from 1989 to 1994). He then joined AOM French Airlines and served from 1997 to 2000, first as executive vice-president then as chief operating officer. From 2000 to 2002, he was chairman and chief executive officer of Maeva, a vacation residence company belonging to the

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group. He then served from 2002 to 2004 as chairman of the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau. In 2004, he joined the

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first as chief officer for development then as chairman of RATP Development. On 3 December 2012 Janaillac was made chairman and chief executive officer of

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and a board member of

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, a French financial organization and Transdev's parent company.

Air France-KLM, 2016–2018

In May 2016 Janaillac was selected as the next CEO of

, following the resignation of

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. The company had a good year in 2017 but a difficult first quarter in 2018 and staff and management were again locked in a dispute over pay increases starting in February 2018. Janaillac proposed a 7% wage increase over 4 years instead of the immediate 6% requested by the unions and, in order to obtain direct approval from the staff, asked for vote, warning that he would resign if his offer was rejected. He resigned on 4 May 2018, after 55% of the airline's staff rejected the offer. On 15 May Frédéric Gagey was named interim CEO.

Other activities

, Member of the Supervisory BoardSupervisory Board

References

External links

Executive profile on the Bloomberg site

Resume (in French) on the ''Le Monde'' site {{DEFAULTSORT:Janaillac, Jean-Marc 1953 births Living people People from Dordogne Collège Stanislas de Paris alumni HEC Paris alumni École nationale d'administration alumni Officers of the Legion of Honour French chief executives French airline chief executives Air France–KLM