François Pérol (born 6 November 1963) is a French banker and high-ranking official and is the current chairman of

Natixis BPCE (for Banque Populaire Caisse d'Epargne) is a major French banking group formed by the 2009 merger of two major retail banking groups, Groupe Caisse d'Épargne and Groupe Banque Populaire. As of 2021, it was France's fourth-largest bank, t ...

Education

Pérol graduated from

HEC Paris HEC Paris () is a business school and ''grande école'' located in Jouy-en-Josas, a southwestern outer suburb of Paris, France. It offers Bachelor, MiM, MSc in International Finance, MBA, EMBA, executive education, professional developm ...

in 1985,

Sciences Po Sciences Po () or Sciences Po Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies (), is a public research university located in Paris, France, that holds the status of ''grande école'' and the legal status of . The university's unde ...

and the

École nationale d'administration The (; ENA; ) was a French ''grande école'', created in 1945 by the then Provisional Government of the French Republic, provisional chief of government Charles de Gaulle and principal co-author of the Constitution of France, 1958 Constitution M ...

Career

In 1994, he was appointed rapporteur then Secretary General of the Interministerial Committee for Industrial Restructuring. Then he was Head of the office of financial markets to the Treasury from 1996 to 1999 and secretary general of the Club de Paris. In 2001, he was promoted as director of finance and business development of the French Treasury. In 2002, he became director of Francis Mer's staff and

Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa ( ; ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. In 2021, he was found guilty of having tried to bribe a judge in 2014 to obtain information ...

, the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry at that time. he was in charge of the rescue of Alcatel, Bull, France Telecom (playing a role in the denial to the latter, against the advice of the Treasury, an increase of capital from the state and the departure of its CEO, Michel Bon) and the

recapitalization Recapitalization is a type of corporate reorganization involving substantial change in a company's capital structure. Recapitalization may be motivated by a number of reasons. Usually, the large part of equity is replaced with debt or vice versa. ...

Alstom Alstom SA () is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer which operates worldwide in rail transport markets. It is active in the fields of passenger transportation, signaling, and locomotives, producing high-speed, suburban, regional ...

, negotiated with the

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the primary Executive (government), executive arm of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with a number of European Commissioner, members of the Commission (directorial system, informall ...

. It also follows the birth of

Sanofi-Aventis Sanofi S.A. is a French multinational pharmaceutical and healthcare company headquartered in Paris, France. The corporation was established in 1973 and merged with Synthélabo in 1999 to form Sanofi-Synthélabo. In 2004, Sanofi-Synthélabo merg ...

, the French Government is negotiating with the U.S. court for the conclusion of the case Executive Life2, and organizes the sale of Ixis by the Caisse des dépôts et consignations aux Caisses d'Epargne. Following his collaboration with

at the ministry of Economy, he was enrolled at the UMP in 2004. From 2005 to 2007, he was managing partner of Rothschild Bank. As such, he advises Philippe Dupont, CEO of Banque Populaire in the creation of Natixis. In May 2007, he was appointed deputy secretary general of the Presidency of the French Republic, where he became the "great architect of the economic program of Nicolas Sarkozy". In the Clearstream affair he was accused by businessman Imad Lahoud for having organized a meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy, which he denies. In 2009, he became CEO of Groupe BPCE, and in November 2012, he was re-elected for a further 4 years as chairman of the management board. He has also been president of the French Banking Federation since 1 September 2009.

References

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