Anne Lauvergeon
Anne Lauvergeon ( born August 2, 1959 in Dijon ) is a French businesswoman. She is a member of the boards of Suez, Total, SAFRAN, Vodafone and EADS. Since 2004 she is listed in the list of 100 most powerful women in the world by Forbes Magazine. In 2008 she took on the World No. 8, 2007 14th place in France it is considered as number 1 in Europe and it ranked third
In 2006, she was the female supervisors with the most employees worldwide and one of the most powerful women in the world. Anne Lauvergeon sits in front of the Supervisory Board of the École des Mines de Nancy and conducts a conveyor and Friends of the Institute François Mitterrand. She is a member of the French Socialist Party. Well-known opponent of the militant socialist manager are the conservative politician Thierry Breton and Jacques Chirac, in a victory of presidential candidate Ségolène Royal, she was a minister in the conversation. A 2007 requested entry into the Sarkozy government refused Anne Lauvergeon.
Biography
In 1978 she started the École Normale Supérieure. She graduated in physics from teaching before they went into the field Montan sciences.
In 1983, she completed an internship at Usinor, 1984, she worked in the Nuclear Safety. 1985 to 1988 she worked at the IGC and in industry and environmental agencies. In 1990, she worked as an officer at François Mitterrand and as a political Sherpa in preparation of G7 meetings.
As of 1995, Anne Lauvergeon was in the banking sector operates, in particular at Lazard. In 1997 she joined the management of Alcatel. She is married and has two children, a son and a daughter.
Activity in the nuclear industry
She was head of Cogema in 1999 and followed this by Jean Syrota. 2001 Cogema was merged with Framatome and Siemens shares to Areva.
Under her leadership, the former state-owned company showed more openness, about the controversial reprocessing plant at La Hague. Within the Areva has increased the proportion of women from 10 to 20 % and is committed to a better reconciliation of work and family.
The most important project for Areva is the new European Pressurized Water Reactor EPR. The first contract for a new reactor ( "Block 3" ) in Olkiluoto, Finland received AREVA 2003. EPR is to bring together the French and German Druckwasserereaktorlinien and was considered a key project for a possible European renaissance of nuclear energy. Start of construction in Finland was in August 2005. Anne Lauvergeon was blamed for delays and problems in this development and the realization. ( to Bauproblemen see here).
Two weeks after the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi in 2011 flew Lauvergeon with experts from the nuclear power plant in Marcoule to Japan. Representatives of the Japanese opposition, so taro Kono had, crisis management criticized and called for the immediate involvement of foreign experts and equipment. Lauvergeon also assured that their position at the top of the Arevakonzerns after it had previously fallen violently due to lack of crisis management under pressure.
On 16 June 2011, the French government announced that it was to be replaced later this month as head of Areva by Luc oursel.