Michel Bon (born 5 July 1943) is a French businessman and politician. He is a graduate of the

ESSEC Business School The École Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (more commonly ESSEC Business School or ESSEC) is a major French business and management school, with non-profit association status (French association law of 1901) founded in 190 ...

, of the

Paris Institute of Political Studies , motto_lang = fr , mottoeng = Roots of the Future , type = Public research university'' Grande école'' , established = , founder = Émile Boutmy , accreditation ...

, of the

École nationale d'administration The École nationale d'administration (generally referred to as ENA, en, National School of Administration) was a French ''grande école'', created in 1945 by President Charles de Gaulle and principal author of the 1958 Constitution Michel Deb ...

and of

Stanford Business School The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California. For several years it has been the most selective business schoo ...

. In 1981, he was selected to be one of the first ''Young Leaders'' of the

French-American Foundation The French-American Foundation is a privately funded, non-governmental organization established to promote bilateral relations between France and the United States on topics of importance to the two countries, with a focus on contact between upco ...

. He worked at the banks

Crédit national The Crédit national was a former French banking institution created under the impetus of Charles François Laurent, an expert in international financing, by a special law on , located on the border between the private domain and the sphere of i ...

and

Crédit Agricole Crédit Agricole Group (), sometimes called La banque verte ( en, The green bank) due to its historical ties to farming, is a French international banking group and the world's largest cooperative financial institution. It is France's second lar ...

. He has been CEO then Chairman of the supermarket group

Carrefour Carrefour () is a French multinational retail and wholesaling corporation headquartered in Massy, France. The eighth-largest retailer in the world by revenue, it operates a chain of hypermarkets, groceries stores and convenience stores, whic ...

. From 1993 to 1995 he was head of the French unemployment agency. He was Chairman of

France Télécom Orange S.A. (), formerly France Télécom S.A. (stylized as france telecom) is a French multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications corporation. It has 266 million customers worldwide and employs 89,000 people in France, and 5 ...

from 1995 to 2002. He was formerly president of the

Institut Pasteur The Pasteur Institute (french: Institut Pasteur) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who invented pasteurization and vaccine ...

. He is also an administrator at Lafarge and formerly of

Air Liquide Air Liquide S.A. (; ; literally " liquid air"), is a French multinational company which supplies industrial gases and services to various industries including medical, chemical and electronic manufacturers. Founded in 1902, after Linde it is ...

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1943 births Living people Businesspeople from Grenoble French chief executives ESSEC Business School alumni Sciences Po alumni École nationale d'administration alumni Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni Inspection générale des finances (France) Politicians from Grenoble Carrefour people Orange S.A. Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Young Leaders of the French-American Foundation {{France-business-bio-stub