Board of Directors
Members of the Board
The Board of Directors is composed of 16 directors including 1 director representing employee shareholders and 2 directors representing employees. The term is 3 years.
Jean Lemierre
Date of birth: 6 June 1950
Main function: Chairman of the Board of Directors of BNP Paribas
Term start date: 16 May 2023
Term end date: Annual General Meeting 2026
First elected to the Board on: 1st December 2014 ratified by the General Meeting of 13 may 2015
Offices held as of 13 May 2025
BNP Paribas, Chairman of the Board of Directors ; TEB Holding AS (Türkiye), Director ; TotalEnergies, Director ; Center for Prospective Studies and International Information (CEPII), Chairman ; French Institute of
Sustainable Finance (IFD), Director ; Institute of International Finance (IIF), member ; International Advisory Council of China Development Bank (CDB), member ; International Advisory Council of China Investment Corporation (CIC), member ; International Advisory Panel (IAP) of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), member ; French Association of Private Enterprises (Afep), director ; Paris-Europlace, Vice-Chairman.
Jean-Laurent Bonnafé
Date of birth: 14 July 1961
Main function: Director and Chief Executive Officer of BNP Paribas
Term start date: 13 May 2025
Term end date: Annual General Meeting 2028
First elected to the Board on: 12 May 2010
Offices held as of 13 May 2025
BNP Paribas, Director and Chief Executive Officer ; Pierre Fabre SA, director ; Pierre Fabre Participations, director ; Hermès International, member of the
Supervisory Board ; Fédération Bancaire Française (FBF), member of the
Executive Committee ; Association Française des Banques (AFB), Chairman ; Association pour le Rayonnement de l’Opéra de Paris, Chairman ; Entreprises pour
l’Environnement, Vice-Chairman ; La France s’engage Foundation, director.
Jacques Aschenbroich
Date of birth: 3 June 1954
Main function: Chairman of the Board of
Directors of Orange
Term start and end dates: 16 May 2023 – AGM 2026
First elected to the Board on: 23 May 2017
Offices held as of 13 May 2025
BNP Paribas, Director, Chairman of the Corporate Governance, Ethics, Nominations and CSR Committee and member of the Financial Statements Committee ; TotalEnergies, Senior IndependentDirector ; French-Japanese Business
Club, Co-Chairman ; French-American Foundation, Chairman of the Executive Committee.
Juliette Brisac
Date of birth: 22 May 1964
Main function: Head of Governance & Permanent Control of the BNP Paribas Group Company Engagement
Term start and end dates: elected by shareholders as director representing employee shareholders, 14 May 2024 – AGM 2027
First elected to the Board on: 18 May 2021
Offices held as of 13 May 2025
BNP Paribas, Director; member of
the Financial Statements Committee; Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of the Group profit sharing scheme mutual fund “BNP Paribas Actionnariat Monde” ; Bénévolat de Compétences
et Solidarité (BCS) by BNP Paribas, director.
Valérie Chort
Date of birth: 17 October 1963
Main function: Director of companies
Term start and end dates: 13 May 2025 – AGM 2028
First elected to the Board on: 13 May 2025
Offices held as of 13 May 2025
BNP Paribas, Director, member of
the Financial Statements Committee and member of the Remuneration
Committee ; Legrand, Director ; Transat A.T., Director ; North West
Rubber, Director ; Women’s College Hospital Foundation, Director ; International
Institute for Sustainable Development, Director.
Monique Cohen
Date of birth: 28 January 1956
Main function: Director of companies
Term start and end dates: 16 May 2023 – AGM 2026
First elected to the Board on: 12 February 2014, ratified by the General Meeting of 14 May 2014
Offices held as of 13 May 2025
BNP Paribas, Director, chairwoman of the Internal Control, Risk Management and Compliance Committee and member of the Corporate Governance, Ethics, Nominations and CSR Committee ; Hermès, Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board ; Safran, Senior Independant Director ; Comgest Global Investors SAS, member of the Board of Partners.
Hugues Epaillard
Date of birth: 22 June 1966
Main function: Business manager Real Estate BNP Paribas
Term start and end dates: elected by BNP Paribas executive employees for 3 years, from 16 February 2024 – 15 February 2027
First elected to the Board on: 16 February 2018
Offices held as of 13 May 2025
BNP Paribas, Director, member of the Remuneration Committee and member of the Internal Control, Risk Management and Compliance Committee ; Judge at the Marseille Employment Tribunal, Management Section ; Commission paritaire de la Banque (AFB - formation recours), member ; Action Logement Services, Director ; Institut français des administrateurs, Director, Co-Chairman of the employee representative directors club.
Vanessa Lepoultier
Date of birth: 20 January 1983
Main function: Financial Advisor
Term start and end dates: elected by BNP Paribas technician employees for 3 years, from 16 February 2024 – 15 February 2027
First elected to the Board on: 16 February 2024
Offices held as of 13 May 2025
BNP Paribas, Director, member of the Financial Statements Committee ; Action Logement Services, Alternate Director.
Lieve Logghe
Date of birth: 11 July 1968
Main function: Chief Financial Officer of
Boortmalt International
Term start and end dates: 13 May 2025 – AGM 2028
First elected to the Board on: 17 May 2022
Offices held as of 13 May 2025
BNP Paribas, Director, member of the Financial Statements Committee and member of the Corporate Governance, Ethics, Nominations and
CSR Committee ; Odisee, Director ; TINCC BV, Director.
Marie-Christine Lombard
Date of birth: 6 December 1958
Main Function: Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Board of Geodis
Term start and end dates: 14 May 2024 – AGM 2027
First elected to the Board on: 10 January 2024 ratified by the General Meeting of 14 May 2024
Offices held as of 13 May 2025
BNP Paribas, Director, chairwoman of the Remuneration Committee ; SNCF, member of the Executive Committee ; Vinci, Director.
Bertrand de Mazières
Date of birth: 3 July 1957
Main function : Director of Companies
Term start and end dates: 13 May 2025 – AGM 2028
First elected to the Board on: 13 May 2025 (M. Bertrand de Mazières served as non-voting Director of BNP Paribas from 1 October 2024 until 13 May 2025)
Offices held as of 13 May 2025
BNP Paribas, Director, member of the Financial Statements Committee and member of the Internal Control, Risk Management and Compliance Committee ; Agence France Locale, member of the Supervisory Board ; International Finance Facility for Immunisation, Director.
Christian Noyer
Date of birth: 6 October 1950
Main Function: Director of companies
Term start date : 14 May 2024 – AGM 2027
First elected to the Board on : 18 May 2021 (Mr. Christian Noyer served as non-voting Director of BNP Paribas from 1 May 2019 until 17 May 2021)
Offices held as of 13 May 2025
BNP Paribas, Director, Chairman of the Financial Statements Committee and member of the Internal Control, Risk Management and Compliance Committee and member of the Remuneration Committee ; Group of Thirty (G30), member ; Institut pour l’Education Financière du Public (IEFP), Chairman ; IFRI Foundation, Director ; French Task force on the reboot of the Capital Markets Union, Chairman of the committee of experts.
Nicolas Peter
Date of birth: 1 April 1962
Main Function: Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BMW AG
Term start and end dates: 13 May 2025 – AGM 2028
First elected to the Board on: 13 May 2025
Offices held as of 13 May 2025
BNP Paribas, Director, member of the Financial Statements Committee and member of the Remuneration Committee ; BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, Chairman of the Board of Trustees ; KION Group, member of the Supervisory Board (resigning with effect on 27 May 2025) ; FORVIA, member of the Supervisory Board (resigning with effect on 28 May 2025) ; Government Commission on the German Corporate Governance Code, member.
Guillaume Poupard
Date of birth: 15 July 1972
Main Function: Deputy Managing Director of Docaposte
Term start and end dates: 13 May 2025 – AGM 2028
First elected to the Board on: 13 May 2025
Offices held as of 13 May 2025
BNP Paribas, Director, member of the Internal Control, Risk Management and Compliance Committee ; Ecole Polytechnique, Director ; Seclab, non-voting Director ; Sekoia.io, non-voting Director.
Daniela Schwarzer
Date of birth: 19 July 1973
Main function: Bertelsmann Foundation, member of the Executive Board
Term start and end dates: 16 May 2023 – AGM 2026
First elected to the Board on: 14 May 2014
Offices held as of 13 May 2025
BNP Paribas, Director, member of the Corporate Governance, Ethics, Nominations and CSR Committee and member of the Internal Control, Risk Management and Compliance Committee ; Institut Jacques Delors, Director ; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, Director ; Institut Jean Monnet, Director ; Covivio, Director.
Annemarie Straathof
Date of birth: 2 August 1962
Main Function: Director of companies
Term start and end dates: 14 May 2024 – AGM 2027
First elected to the Board on: 14 May 2024
Offices held as of 13 May 2025
BNP Paribas, director, member of the Internal Control, Risk Management and Compliance Committee.
Other Corporate Officers
Yann Gérardin
Date of birth: 11 November 1961
Main function : Chief Operating Officer of BNP Paribas in charge of CIB
Offices held as of 13 May 2025
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Thierry Laborde
Date of birth: 17 December 1960
Main function: Chief Operating Officer of BNP Paribas in charge of Commercial, Personal Banking & Services
Offices held as of 13 May 2025
BNP Paribas Personal Finance, Chairman of the Board of Directors ; BNL SpA, Director ; Arval Service Lease, Director; BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions, Director ; BNP Paribas Lease Group, Director ; European Payments Initiative, Director.
For the entirety of the Members of Board's mandates as of 31 December 2024, read the 2024 Universal Registration Document.
4 Special Committees
A number of Special Committees have been set up under the Board of Directors to assist the Directors in carrying out their duties. The designated roles of these Committees do not in any way reduce or restrict the powers of the Board.
The Committees meet at their own convenience, with or without Bank management in attendance. They may, at need, call on the services of external experts. They issue opinions addressed to the Board of Directors.
The Financial Statements Committee
The Committee is tasked with analysing the quarterly, half-yearly and annual financial statements issued by BNP Paribas as well as sustainability information and obtaining further explanations of certain items prior to presentation of the financial statements to the Board of Directors.
The Internal Control, Risk Management and Compliance Committee
The Committee examines the key focuses of the Group’s risk management policy, based on measurements of risks and profitability provided to it in accordance with applicable regulations, as well as on its analyses of specific issues related to these matters and methodologies.The Committee also tackles all compliance-related issues, particularly those in the areas of reputation risk or professional ethics.
The Corporate Governance, Ethics, Nominations and CSR Committee
The Committee is tasked with monitoring corporate governance issues. Its role is to help the Board of Directors to adapt corporate governance practices within BNP Paribas and to assess the performance of Board members.
Compensation Committee
According to the internal rules, the Compensation Committee “is tasked with addressing all issues related to the personal status of corporate officers, including compensation, pension benefits, and provisions governing the departure of members of the Bank’s corporate decision-making or representative bodies. It examines the conditions, amount and allocation of stock subscription or purchase option plans. Similarly, it examines the conditions of bonus share grants.
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