Governance

Born February 13, 1950, Anne-Marie Couderc is a graduate in private law and holds a French Professional Lawyer’s Certificate (Certificat d’aptitude à la Profession d’Avocat). 
She began her career in 1972 as a lawyer with the Paris Bar. She then became Chief Legal Officer in Hachette’s industrial division between 1979 and 1982, before fulfilling different management functions within the Lagardère Group from 1982 to 1995. 
In parallel, Anne-Marie Couderc has pursued a political career: having been elected to the Paris Council in 1983, until 2001 she successively served as Advisor then Deputy to the Mayor of Paris between 1989 and 2001. Having been elected a Deputy of the French National Assembly in 1993, she subsequently joined the government in 1995 where she was appointed Secretary of State to the Prime Minister, responsible for Employment, then Minister for Employment and Social Affairs, responsible for Employment, until 1997. 
In 1997, she was named Chief Executive Officer followed, from 2006 to 2010, by Secretary-General of Lagardère Active (press and audiovisual).  
She has held the position of Corporate Director since 30 June 2017. She has been Chairwoman of the Board of Air France-KLM since 15 May 2018. 

Born on November 16, 1979, Ms. Avice-Huet is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (agrégation in physics and chemistry), an engineer of the Corps des Ponts et Chaussées and a graduate of the École Polytechnique (DEA in molecular chemistry). 
She began her career in 2006 with the Saint-Gobain Group in the United States, as a project manager in the field of energy, before working as an analyst at the World Bank in Washington D.C., where she co-published a book dedicated to urban infrastructure. 
From 2007 to 2010, she started working in the administration, first at the General Secretariat for European Affairs (Prime Minister’s department) and then as an advisor in various ministerial cabinets where she took part in international climate negotiations. 
In 2010, she joined the Engie Group (formerly GDF-Suez), where she was to hold the position of Director of European and Regulatory Affairs and advised the Group’s General Management until 2015. In 2016, she was appointed CEO of Engie France Renouvelables and contributed to the industrial transformation that will position Engie as the leader in wind and solar energy in France. 
As of 2019, she held the positions of Deputy CEO of the Engie Group in charge of renewable energies and CEO of Engie North America (Houston, USA), and was a member of the Engie Group Executive Committee. In March 2021, she joined the Schneider Electric Group (Boston, USA), where she heads strategic projects for the company on energy transition. Gwenaëlle Avice-Huet is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. Ms. Avice-Huet is a Knight of the National Order of Merit. 

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Born June 14, 1961, Alain Bellemare is the permanent representative on Air France – KLM’s Board of Directors of Delta Air Lines, Inc.*, a corporation formed under the laws of the State of Delaware having its registered office at 1030 Delta Bld. Atlanta. GA USA 30354.  
Alain Bellemare is a transformative business leader and board member with extensive experience in strategy, business development and operational roles. He serves as Executive Vice-President and President-International at Delta Air Lines Inc.* since January 2021.   
In 2020, Mr. Bellemare was an Operating Executive with The Carlyle Group*, focused on the aerospace, defense and government services sectors. Prior to joining The Carlyle Group, he served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of Bombardier Inc.* from 2015 to 2020.   
Before joining Bombardier, Mr. Bellemare spent 18 years with United Technologies Corporation, serving as President and Chief Executive Officer of UTC Propulsion & Aerospace Systems from 2011 to 2015.  

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Born December 23, 1963, Léni M.T. Boeren holds a Masters degree in Business Management from Erasmus University in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). 
Ms. Boeren started her career in the financial sector at Paribas in 1983. She went on to work for Rabobank, where she held various positions through to 1992. She then moved to Robeco as head of the marketing and product management department from 1992 to 1997. She subsequently became a member of the Board of Directors of Amsterdam Exchanges followed, in 2000 to 2005, by her appointment as a member of the Executive Committee of Euronext N.V. (1) , the result of the merger of the Paris (ParisBourse), Brussels (Brussels Exchanges) and Amsterdam (Amsterdam Exchanges) stock exchanges. 
From January 2005 until December 2016, she was successively a member, Vice-Chair and Chair of the management Board of Robeco Groep N.V., an international asset management firm. She was also responsible for Robeco Groep’s subsidiaries and held several Board positions. She also served as a member and Chair of the Board of DUFAS, the Dutch Fund and Asset Management Association (2009-2016). 
Ms. Boeren has been Chair and CEO of the Management Board of Kempen Capital Management and a member of the Executive Board of Van Lanschot Kempen N.V. (1) (from February 2018 to April 2020). 

Born May 30, 1960, Pascal Bouchiat is a former student of the Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Industrielle de Lyon (1983), and holds an MBA from the EM Lyon (1985) and an Executive MBA Trium from the NYU Stern School of Business, the London School of Economics and HEC Paris (2004).

Pascal Bouchiat began his professional career in 1985, at Rhône-Poulenc Group as a Research engineer before taking on industrial management responsibilities and then being appointed as Head of Management Control for the Specialty Chemicals Sector.

From 1998 to 2012, he worked for the Rhodia Group which became Solvay. He held various financial management functions from 1998 to 2005 before being appointed Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer in charge of finance and information systems and supervisor of Acetow and Eco Services from 2005 to 2011. From 2011 to 2012, he was Director of integration of Rhodia and Solvay Groups.

Since April 2012, he has been Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer in charge of Finance and Information Systems of Thales Group ⁽¹⁾. He has been in charge of management control, international financing, taxation, risk management and insurance, investor relations, treasury and information systems.

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Born May 5, 1949, Isabelle Bouillot holds an advanced degree in Public Law and is a graduate of the Institut des Études Politiques de Paris and the École Nationale d’Administration.  
Having occupied various positions in the French Public Administration, among them Economic Advisor to the President of the Republic between 1989 and 1991 and Budget Director at the Ministry of Economy and Finance between 1991 and 1995, Ms. Bouillot was Deputy Chief Executive Officer in charge of the financial and banking activities at the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations between 1995 and 2000 then Chair of the Management Board of the Investment Bank of the CDC IXIS Group from 2000 to 2003. Since 2006, Ms. Bouillot has been President of China Equity Links (SAS). 

Born May, 5, 1959, Mr. Didier Dague holds a commercial baccalauréat and studied law. He joined Air France in 1987 as a commercial services agent in the Commercial France department, which has now become Pilotage Economique.

In the mid-1990s, he became involved in the union. He was quickly led to hold several union positions within his entity and then centrally. He represents his organization at the European Transport Federation. He served three terms as a Board director representing the employees on the Air France Board of Directors until 2022. Since April 2023, he has been a Board director representing employees appointed by the French Group Committee on the Air France-KLM Board of Directors.

Born August 30, 1963, Michel Delli-Zotti graduated as a professional pilot in 1987. 
After a period in business aviation and then in regional transportation, he joined Air France in 1989 as an Airline Pilot Officer. He initially flew B727s before moving to the B747-400. Promoted to Captain on the A320 in 2003, he has been operating long-haul flights on the B777 since 2007 

Born on August 27, 1965, Wiebe Draijer is an experienced professional in both the public and private sectors, who holds an MBA from INSEAD Business School and a Master’s in mechanical engineering from Delft University of Technology. In 1989, he started his career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company before being appointed, in 2004, as Managing Partner for The Netherlands and for the Benelux countries, in 2006.

On September 1, 2012, he was appointed as President of the Social and Economic Council of The Netherlands. From October 2014 to September 2022, he served as Chairman of Rabobank’s Managing Board.

Until 2022, he was notably a Member of the Dutch Cyber Security Council (CSR) and Board Member of the Dutch Banking Association. Wiebe Draijer is also Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) and a Member of the Supervisory Board of Staatsbosbeheer (State Forest).

Born on March 21, 1979, Nicolas Foretz began his career in 1999 as a ground staff member with Air Liberté. In 2004, he joined Régional as a flight attendant, before joining Air France in 2005.
As Air France employee representative since 2017, he has sat on a number of commissions, including the central economic, employment and training commission.

Céline Fornaro holds a Master of Science from the College of Aeronautics at Cranfield University (UK) and is a graduate engineer from the Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile.
Céline Fornaro began her career as a Marketing and Product Manager in Aircraft Sales at Embraer in 2000. She joined Bank of America Merril Lynch in 2004, in the Equity Research team, specializing in strategic and financial analysis of the aerospace, defense and satellite sectors. In 2010, she was promoted to Managing Director of the Aerospace, Defense and Satellite team. 
From 2016 to 2022, Céline Fornaro was Head of Equity Market Research for the industrial sector (aerospace, capital goods, renewable energy suppliers and transport) at UBS. 
On June 1, 2022, she joined the Agence des Participations de l'Etat as Head of the Finance division, in charge of strategic and financial operations for the portfolio of the French State shareholder, and dialogue with the various stakeholders involved in debt and equity (rating agencies, advisors, investment funds, etc.). 
Céline Fornaro will be appointed Deputy Managing Director of the Agence des Participations de l'Etat on October 1, 2023.

Born on July 27, 1951, Anne-Marie Idrac graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Institut d’Études Politiques), the National School of Administration (École Nationale d’Administration) and the Institute of Higher Learning in National Defense (Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale).  
She was chief executive officer at the Public Development Agency of Cergy-Pontoise, director of land transportation at the Ministry of Equipment and Transport and subsequently Secretary of State for Transport. She occupied the positions of Chair and CEO of the RATP (Paris Public Transport Authority) from 2002 to 2006, and Chair and CEO of the SNCF (French State Railways) from 2006 to 2008. She was a Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2002, and Secretary of State for Foreign Trade from 2008 to 2010. 
Anne-Marie Idrac is currently board director of Saint-Gobain(1), Bouygues(1) and Total(1). She is also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Aéroport de Toulouse Blagnac since 2015 (this function will expire in May 2018). Anne-Marie Idrac is currently director of companies.   

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Born June 18, 1973, Yann Leriche is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and an engineering graduate of the Corps des Ponts et Chaussées. He also holds degrees from the Collège des Ingénieurs and from ESCP.

He began his career in 2000 in the public sector as a Director of road infrastructure projects before being appointed as a Director of collective transport network construction and operations. He then occupied various functions at Bombardier Transport where he notably headed the Guided Light Transit transport systems division.

In 2008, he joined the Transdev Group where he occupied several management functions before becoming CEO of Transdev North America in 2017. Since 2020, he has been Chief Executive Officer of Getlink, a company specialized in the transportation of persons, merchandise and energy which is notably the concession holder for the Channel tunnel.

Born in Paris on May 8, 1963, Florence Parly is a graduate of Sciences Po and ENA (Fernand Braudel alumnus).

In 1997, she joined the Prime Minister's cabinet as advisor on budgetary affairs. In 2000, she was appointed Secretary of State for the Budget, a position she held until 2002.

From 2003 to 2004, Florence Parly was a Project Manager at Agence France Trésor, then Chairman of the Executive Board of the Agence Régionale de Développement de l'Ile de France until 2006.

In 2006, she joined the Air France-KLM Group, where she held the positions of Investment Strategy Director (2006-08), Executive Vice-President, Cargo (2008-12) and Executive Vice-President, Short-Haul (2013).

In 2014, Florence Parly joined SNCF as Deputy CEO before becoming CEO of SNCF Voyageurs in 2016.

In June 2017, Florence Parly was appointed Minister of the French Armed Forces, an office she held until May 2022.

Born on January 30, 1983, Terence Tilgenkamp joined KLM in 2006 as a cabin attendant. He has been working as a purser on KLM flights since 2018. 
He was also a member of the KLM section of the parliament of the Union of Dutch Cabin Crew, a member of the KLM Works Council, of which he also acted as president between 2019 and 2021, as well as a non-executive director of the KLM Cabin Crew Pension Fund. 

Born on December 18, 1953, Mr. Van den Berg is a graduate of Groningen State University (Netherlands), of the École Nationale d’Administration (Paris), and of the Academie voor Bank en Verzekeringen (Amsterdam). 
He began his career as a Research Assistant in the Faculty of Economics (Groningen State University). He joined the Ministry of Economic Affairs (Netherlands) in 1980 where he was appointed Policy Advisor on macroeconomics before becoming the Head of the Medium Term Bureau of the Macro Economic Policy Directorate and “Director Industrial Policy in the Directorate General for Industry” at the Ministry of Economic Affairs from 1987 to 1989. During those two years, he was also Director of the “BOFEB” (Netherlands), a one - year professional training program for young economists, aspiring for government jobs. 
In 1989 he was appointed as Deputy Director General for Foreign Economic relations at the Ministry of Economic Affairs (Netherlands), in 1992 he was appointed as Deputy Director General for Industry at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and from 1992 to 2001 he was appointed as Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 
From 2001 until 2005, he was the Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations in New York. From 2005 to 2008, he was Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the People’s Republic of China and Mongolia, before becoming President of the Executive Board of Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) in 2008. 
From 2015 until 2020 he was Chairman Executive Board Sanquin Blood Supply. 
Since 2020, Mr. Van den Berg is the President of the Association of Health Insurance Companies in the Netherlands (ZN, Zorgverzekeraars Nederland). 

Born on August 18 1973, Jian Wang graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and obtained a Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Business Administration postgraduate degree from East China University of Science and Technology and then an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from Tsinghua University. 
Jian Wang began his career in aviation industry in 1995, and has rich experience in corporate governance, strategic investment, capitalization and management. He designed and facilitated a number of capital and strategic projects in China Eastern. 
Beginning April 2012, Jian Wang was appointed as corporate secretary and president of Eastern Airlines Industry Investment Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of China Eastern Air Holding Company Limited. 
Now Jian Wang is corporate secretary, chairman of Eastern Airlines Industry Investment Co., Ltd and director of Eastern Air Logistics Co., Ltd., a controlling subsidiary of China Eastern Air Holding Company Limited. 

Born August 1, 1960, Alex Wynaendts holds an electrical engineering degree from the Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (1984) and an economics degree from the Université Paris-Sorbonne (1983). He has more than 30 years’ experience of insurance and international finance. 
Mr. Wynaendts began his career in banking with ABN AMRO in 1984, where he was responsible for commercial and investment banking operations in Amsterdam and London. Between 1992 and 1997, he held various positions with ABN AMRO in London. In 1997 he joined Aegon within the Group Business Development division. He joined Aegon’s Executive Board in 2003 and was appointed Aegon’s Chief Operating Officer in 2007. 
Mr. Wynaendts has been CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of Aegon NV(1) from 23 April 2008 to 15 May 2020. Since 2022 he is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft.