DR. ANDRÉ LÉVY-LANG
Dr. André Lévy-Lang began his career with the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA - the French atomic energy commission) in 1960, then joined the Schlumberger Group in 1962 where he held various engineering, marketing and management positions in France and the United States. Between 1963 and 1965 he was a Harkness Fellow at Stanford University.

In 1974 he joined Paribas, a banking group, through one of its major affiliates, Compagnie Bancaire, the leading European group of specialised financial services companies. He was appointed CEO of Compagnie Bancaire in 1982.

In 1990 Dr. Lévy-Lang was appointed CEO of the Paribas group, a position he held until 1999 when Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) acquired Paribas to create BNP-Paribas.

BOARD MANDATES
Dr. Lévy-Lang is Chairman of “Les Echos”, Vice-Chairman of Paris Orléans and a Non-Executive Director of SCOR. He stepped down as Non-Executive Director for Dexia SA in July 2009.

He was a member of the Executive Board of the French Bankers Association from 1982 to 1999 and was Vice-President, Treasurer of Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI) from 1994 to 1997.

From 1988 until 1994 he was Chairman of the Finance Committee of the French Employers Association (MEDEF).

He has held Directorships on the boards of Péchiney, Elf Aquitaine and Finaxa and was until recently on the boards of Schlumberger and Assurances Générales de France (AGF).

Dr. Lévy-Lang is a Governor of the American Hospital in Paris, chairs the Fondation du Risque and the Institut Louis Bachelier, and sits on the boards of Fondation Europlace de Finance, Institut Français des Relations Internationales and Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques.

He is active as an independent investor and is a Visiting Professor in Finance at Université de Paris-Dauphine.