Henri de Castries

Henri de La Croix de Castries ( born August 15, 1954 in Bayonne ) is a French manager and since May 2000 Executive Officer (CEO) of the French insurance group AXA. He is Chairman of the Bilderberg meetings.

Career

De Castries belongs to from the Languedoc in France originating noble family de La Croix de Castries and first attended the school " Ecole Saint -Jean -de -Passy " before he moved to Paris at the high school " Collège Stanislas ". He attended two elite high schools: In 1976, he completed his studies at the École des hautes Higher School of Economics Higher Commercial Studies in Paris from. The further education at the ENA he finished in 1980 with a degree in law, at the same time with Dominique de Villepin, François Hollande and Ségolène Royal.

From 1980 to 1989 he took over under different government constellations various tasks in the French Ministry of Finance. In 1989 he moved to the head office of the insurance company AXA, where he was appointed Secretary-General with responsibility for the legal aspects of restructuring and integration of the acquired Compagnie du Midi 1991. He became general manager of AXA with responsibility inter alia for the real estate and financial assets in 1993. In 1994 he took over responsibility for the area of ​​North America and the UK. From 1996 he was involved in the merger with the Union des Assurances de Paris with the merger of the two companies. From 1997 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of AXA Financial later. In 2000 he was appointed CEO of AXA.

Between 2003 and 2008, was de Castries Chairman of the Geneva Association, an international research organization in the insurance sector.