Jean-René Fourtou
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Born in 1939 in Libourne (Gironde – France)
Married, 3
children
Education
Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
(1960)
Career
1963 - 1972 Consulting engineer
in organizational management at Bossard & Michel
1972 - 1977 Chief
Executive Officer of Bossard Consultants
1977 - 1986 Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of the Bossard Group (Management and communications
consultancy)
1986 - 1999 Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Rhône-Poulenc Group (Chemicals and pharmaceuticals)
1999 - 2002
Vice-Chairman of the Management Board and Managing Director of Aventis
(created by the merger of Hoescht and Rhône-Poulenc)
2002 - 2005
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Vivendi Universal
Since 2005
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of
Vivendi
Boards
Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory
Board of AXA (Insurance), board member of Sanofi-Aventis
(Pharmaceuticals), Nestlé, CapGemini SA (Consultancy and Services), NBC U
(Media and Entertainment US).
Former board member of Schneider, EADS,
Pernod-Ricard, La Poste, Société Générale, Rhodia, Veolia, Rhône Poulenc,
Finaxa.
Professional Assocations
Chairman then Honorary
Chairman of the French Movement for Quality (1992-1994).
Chairman then
Honorary Chairman of the Association of Companies for the Environment
(1992-1993). Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce
(2002-2004), presently Honorary Chairman.
He was also a member of the
European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT) from 1996 to 2004 and
co-founder of Entreprise & Cité
(1983).
Awards
Commander of the Legion of
Honour (2008)
Officer of the Legion of Honour (1996)
Commander of
the National Order of Merit (2003)
Manager of the Year, Nouvel
Economiste (1992)
European Businessman of the Year, Forbes
(2003)
Commander of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite (Morocco, January
2005)
Commander of the Order of Ouissam al Moukafaa al Watanya
(Morocco, July 2005)
International Leadership Award (United States
Council for International Business,
2004)
Publication
La passion d’entreprendre,
Editions Organisation, 1985
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