Jean-Louis Beffa
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Jean-Louis Beffa (born 11 August 1941 in Nice, France) is a French businessman. He was Chairman and CEO of Saint-Gobain from 1986 to 2007, Chairman until 2010 and is Honorary Chairman of the board of Saint-Gobain.[1] He is a former member of the Saint-Simon Foundation and was on the boards of BNP Paribas, GDF Suez, Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, Siemens AG, Le Monde S.A., S.A., and SAS.
In 2000, he and Nobel economist Robert Solow co-founded the Saint-Gobain Centre for Economic Studies, later becoming the Cournot Centre. They went on to create the Cournot Foundation in 2010 under the aegis of the public charity Fondation de France, currently serving as co-presidents.
Education[]
- École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris
- École polytechnique
- Institut d'études politiques de Paris
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 29 May 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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- 1941 births
- Living people
- École Polytechnique alumni
- Mines ParisTech alumni
- Corps des mines
- Sciences Po alumni
- French chief executives
- French people of Italian descent
- People from Nice
- Grand Officiers of the Légion d'honneur
- Commanders of the National Order of Merit (France)
- French business biography stubs