Year of birth: 1946.
Nationality: French.
Professional address: A.T. Kearney – 44, rue de Lisbonne –
75008 Paris (France).
Principal function: Senior Advisor, A.T. Kearney.
End of current mandate: AGM 2016.
First mandate: 9 July 2004-24 June 2008.
Independent Director.
Member of the Audit Committee.
Member of the Ethics, Compliance and Sustainability Committee.
Holds 600 shares.
Other current directorships and positions:
In France:
Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Valeo (*);
Non-Executive Director of Technip (*).
In foreign countries:
Non-Executive Director of EnergySolutions Inc (*) (USA).
Past directorships (held during the past five years):
In France:
Non-Executive Director of Rhodia (*) (2005 – 2011)
Senior Advisor of Detroyat Associés and Banque Arjil (2006 – 2009).
In foreign countries:
Non-Executive Director of British Energy Group plc (subsidiary of EDF) (2003 – 2011).
Biography:
Mr Pascal Colombani is a graduate of École normale supérieure (Saint-Cloud) and holds a doctorate in Nuclear Physics. His career has been balanced between research and industry: he started as a research associate at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) then joined Schlumberger where he spent almost twenty years in various management positions in Europe, the USA, and Japan. In this last assignment, while President of Schlumberger KK in Tokyo, he also initiated the implantation of an R&D centre in China. Director of Technology at the French Ministry of Research from 1997 to 1999, he became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in 2000 until December 2002. He initiated the restructuring of the CEA industrial holdings, resulting in the creation of Areva in 2000, the nuclear engineering conglomerate. He chaired the Supervisory Board of Areva until 2003. Mr Pascal Colombani is Senior Advisor on Innovation, High Technology and Energy at A. T. Kearney, the management consultancy. He is also Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Valeo and member of the Boards of Technip and EnergySolutions Inc. He is a member of the French Academy of Technologies. Mr Pascal Colombani is Officer of the Légion d’honneur and Officer of the National Order of Merit.