Members of the Board
The Board of Directors is composed of 14 directors ; 13 directors are elected by shareholders including 1 director elected by employee shareholders, and 2 directors are elected by 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
Office address: 3 rue d'Antin, 75002 Paris, France
Offices held as of 1 May 2023
BNP Paribas, Chairman of the Board of Directors ; TEB Holding AS (Turkey), 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: 17 May 2022
Term end date: Annual General Meeting 2025
First elected to the Board on: 12 May 2010
Office address: 3 rue d'Antin, 75002 Paris, France
Offices held as of 1 May 2023
BNP Paribas, Director and Chief Executive Officer ; Pierre Fabre SA, director ; Pierre Fabre Participations, director ; 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 ; La France s’engage Foundation, director ; Bank Policy Institute, director.
Jacques Aschenbroich
Date of birth: 3 June 1954
Main function: Chairman of Orange Group
Term start and end dates: 16 May 2023 – AGM 2026 // Date first elected to the Board: 23 May 2017
Office address: 111, quai du Président Roosevelt, 92130
Issy-les-Moulineaux – France
Offices held as of 1 May 2023
BNP Paribas, Director, Chairman of the Corporate Governance, Ethics, Nominations and CSR Committee and member of the Financial Statements Committee ; Ecole nationale supérieure Mines ParisTech, Chairman of the Board of Directors ; French-Japanese Business
Club, Co-Chairman ; TotalEnergies, lead independent Director ; French Institute of
Sustainable Finance (IFD), Vice-Chairman
Juliette Brisac
Date of birth: 22 May 1964
Main function: Chief Operating Officer of the BNP Paribas Group Company Engagement
Term start and end dates: elected by shareholders as director representing employee shareholders, 18 May 2021 – AGM 2024 // First elected to the Board on : 18 May 2021
Office address: Millénaire 4 – 35, rue de la Gare, 75019 Paris –
France
Offices held as of 1 May 2023
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”.
Pierre-André de Chalendar
Date of birth: 12 April 1958
Main function: Chairman of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
Term start and end dates: 18 May 2021 – 2024 AGM // First elected to the Board on: 23 May 2012
Office address: Tour Saint-Gobain - 12 place de l’Iris - 92096 La Défense Cedex – France
Offices held as of 1 May 2023
BNP Paribas, Director, Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and member of the Corporate Governance, Ethics, Nominations and CSR Committee ; Saint-Gobain Corporation, Director ; French Association of Private Enterprises (Afep), director ; ESSEC Business School's Board of Overseers, Chairman ; La Fabrique de l’industrie, Co-Chairman ; Veolia Environnement, Director ; Bpifrance, Director ; Institut de l’entreprise, Chairman
Monique Cohen
Date of birth: 28 January 1956
Main function: Senior Advisor of Seven2
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
Office address: 1 rue Paul Cézanne, 75008 Paris, France
Offices held as of 1 May 2023
BNP Paribas, Director, chairwoman of the Internal Control, Risk Management and Compliance Committee and member of the Corporate Governance, Ethics, Nominations and CSR Committee ; Proxima Investissement SA, Chairman of the Board of Directors ; Fides Holdings, Chairman of the Board of Directors ; Fides Acquisitions, member of the Supervisory Board ; Hermès, Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board ; Safran, lead independant director.
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 2021 – 15 February 2024
// First elected to the Board on: 16 February 2018
Office address : 83, La Canebière 13 001 Marseille, France
Offices held as of 1 May 2023
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.
Rajna Gibson Brandon
Date of birth: 20 December 1962
Main function: Professor of Finance at the University of Geneva
Term start and end dates: 18 May 2021 – 2024 AGM // First elected to the Board on: 28 November 2018 ratified by the General Meeting of 23 May 2019.
Office address: 40 Boulevard Pont d'Arve, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
Offices held as of 1 May 2023
BNP Paribas, Director, member of the Internal Control, Risk Management and Compliance Committee ; Geneva Finance Research Institute, Deputy director ; Geneva Institute for
Wealth Management Foundation, Managing Director and Chairwoman ; Bulach Investment Professionals ‘Scientific and Training Board, Chairman; Strategic and Surveillance Committee of Sustainable Finance Geneva, member ; Banque Nationale Suisse, director ; Swisox, Director ;
RepRisk, member of the academic advisory board.
Marion Guillou
Date of birth: 17 September 1954
Main function: Director of companies
Term start and end dates: 17 May 2022 – AGM 2025 // First elected to the Board on: 15 May 2013
Office address: 42,
rue Scheffer 75116 Paris – France
Offices held as of 1 May 2023
BNP Paribas, Director, member of the Corporate Governance, Ethics, Nominations and CSR Committee and member of the Remuneration Committee; Veolia Environnement, Director ; Care - France (NGO), Vice-Chairwoman ; IFRI, Director ; International Center for Tropical Agriculture
(CIAT), Director ; Bioversity International, Director ; The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Director ; Fonds de dotation pour la préservation de la
biodiversité des espèces cultivées et de leurs apparentées sauvages,
Chairwoman ; Académie d’Agriculture de France,
Vice-Chairwoman ; Haut conseil pour le
climat, member.
Lieve Logghe
Date of birth: 11 July 1968
Main function: Interim Chief Executive
Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Euronav Group
Term start and end dates: 17 May 2022 – AGM 2025 // First elected to the Board on: 17 May 2022
Office address: De Gerlachekaai 20 2000, Antwerp Belgium
Offices held as of 1 May 2023
BNP Paribas, director, member of the Financial Statements
Committee ; Odisee, director ; TINCC BV, Director.
Christian Noyer
Date of birth: 6 October 1950
Main Function: Honorary Governor of the Bank of France
Term start date : 18 May 2021 – AGM 2024 // First elected to the Board on : 18 May 2021 (M. Christian Noyer
served as non-voting Director of BNP Paribas from 1 May 2019 until 18 May
2021)
Office address: 9,
rue de Valois 75001 Paris – France
Offices held as of 1 May 2023
BNP Paribas, Director, Chairman of the Financial Statements Committee ; Power Corporation Canada, Director ; Group of Thirty (G30), member ; Institut pour
l’Education Financière du Public (IEFP), Chairman ; IFRI Foundation,
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
Office address : Werderscher Markt 6, 101117 Berlin, Germany
Offices held as of 1 May 2023
BNP Paribas, Director, member of the Corporate Governance, Ethics, Nominations and CSR Committee ; Association Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors, Directors ; Foundation United Europe, Director ; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, Director ; Fondation Jean Monnet, Director ; Covivio, director.
Michel Tilmant
Date of birth: 21 July 1952
Main function: Director of Companies
Term start and end dates: 17 May 2022 – AGM 2025 // First elected to the Board on: 12 May 2010 (M. Michel Tilmant served as non-voting Director of BNP Paribas from 4 November 2009 to 11 May 2010)
Office address: Rue du Moulin 10, B-1310 La Hulpe, Belgium
Offices held as of 1 May 2023
BNP Paribas, Director, member of the Internal Control, Risk Management and Compliance Committee ; Strafin sprl (Belgium), manager ; CapitalatWork Foyer Group SA, Chairman ; Foyer SA, Director ; Foyer Finance SA, Director ; Groupe Lhoist SA, Director ; Royal Automobile Club of Belgium, Director ; Zoute Automobile Club, Director.
Sandrine Verrier
Date of birth: 9 april 1979
Main function: Production and sales support assistant
Term start and end dates: elected by BNP Paribas technician employees for 3 years, from 16 February 2021 – 15 February 2024 // First elected to the Board on: 16 February 2015
Office address: 150, rue du Faubourg Poissonnière 75010 Paris, France
Offices held as of 1 May 2023
BNP Paribas, Director, member of the Financial Statements Committee ; Conseil Economique, Social et Environnemental Régional d’Ile de France (Ceser), Advisor.
Other Corporate Officers
Yann Gérardin
Date of birth: 11 November 1961
Main function : Chief Operating Officer of BNP Paribas in charge of CIB
Office address : 3 rue d’Antin, 75002 Paris, France
Offices held as of 1 May 2023
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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
Office address : 3 rue d’Antin, 75002 Paris, France
Offices held as of 1 May 2023
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.
The listed mandates are the ones in force as of 1 May 2023. For
the entirety of the Members of the Board’s mandates as of 31 December 2022,
read the 2022 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 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 exami Stop editingnes the conditions, amount and allocation of stock subscription or purchase option plans. Similarly, it examines the conditions of bonus share grants.
To find out more, access the 2022 Universal Registration Document (including the Internal Rules of the Board of Directors and the Guidelines on the assessment of the suitability of members of the Management Body and Key Function Holders).