Claude Bébéar

French businessman

Claude Bébéar

Born	(1935-07-29) 29 July 1935 (age 88) Issac, France
Alma mater	École Polytechnique
Occupation	Businessman

Claude Bébéar (born 1935) is a French businessman.^[1]^[2]^[3] He is the former CEO of AXA.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Biography

Early life

Claude Bébéar was born on 29 July 1935 in Issac, France.^[1]^[3] He graduated from the Lycée Saint-Louis and the École Polytechnique.^[1]^[3] He was trained at the Armoured Cavalry Branch Training School in Saumur and did his military service in Algeria.^[1] He then received a diploma from the Institute of Actuaries of France.^[1]

Career

He started his career at Anciennes Mutuelles, up until he became CEO after André Sahut d'Izarn's death in 1975.^[1] In 1985, it became known as AXA.^[1]

He helped out Jean-Marie Messier from Vivendi. He was involved in the ousting of the chairmen of Rhodia.^[4]

He is a member of the board of directors of Vivendi, BNP Paribas and Schneider Electric,^[3] and has been a member of Le Siècle.^[5] He is also Chairman of the Institut du mécénat de solidarité and the Institut Montaigne.^[3]

Private life

He is a Roman Catholic, widowed with three children, two of whom were adopted from South Korea. In 2007, he was worth 106 million euros.^[6]

Bibliography

Le courage de réformer (André Babeau, Odile Jacob, 2002)
Ils vont tuer le capitalisme (May 2003)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h AXA Profile
^ ^a ^b BusinessWeek
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Vivendi biography
^ JOHN TAGLIABUE (18 November 2003). "If Claude Bébéar Speaks, French Companies Listen". The New York Times.
^ Frédéric Saliba, 'Le pouvoir à la table du Siècle', in Stratégies, issue 1365, 14 April 2005, p. 49 [1] Archived 10 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Claude Bébéar dévoile sa fortune". Le Figaro. 6 May 2009.