François Pérol
has been Chairman of the Management Board of Caisse
Nationale des Caisses dEpargne and Chief Executive
Officer of Banque Fédérale des Banques Populaires since
March 2, 2009. He is also Chairman of the Supervisory
Board of Natixis.
A graduate of the HEC School of
Business Administration and the Paris Institute of
Political Science (Sciences Po) and a former student at
the Ecole Nationale dAdministration (ENA) school for
high-flying civil servants, François Pérol began his
career in 1990 in the Inspection générale des Finances,
the French Treasury department responsible for auditing
public bodies. In 1994, he was appointed Deputy General
Secretary of the Interdepartmental Commission for
Industrial Restructuring (CIRI). In 1996, he moved to
the French Treasury Department to assume responsibility
as the head of the Financial Markets Office.
Between 1999 and 2001, he served as
General Secretary of the Paris Club responsible for
international negotiations with debtor countries.
In 2001, he became Assistant
Director responsible for business financing and
development in the French Treasury Department before
being appointed deputy Principal Private Secretary to
Francis Mer, Minister of the Economy, Finance and
Industry in the French government and, subsequently,
deputy Principal Private Secretary to Nicolas Sarkozy,
Ministre dEtat, Minister of the Economy, Finance and
Industry in 2004.
In 2005, he became a managing partner
of the investment bank Rothschild & Cie.
In May 2007, François Pérol was
appointed deputy Chief of Staff to the President of the
French Republic.