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the Board of Directors

The Board of Directors presides over all decisions relating to the Company’s major strategic, economic, employment, financial or technological policies and monitors the implementation of these policies by management.

As of March 2008, the Board of Directors was composed of 15 members: eight directors elected by the Shareholders’ Meeting; one director elected by the Shareholders’ Meeting upon proposal by employee shareholders; three directors representing the State, appointed by decree and three directors elected by employees.


Members elected by the Shareholders' Meeting	Members representing the French State	Members representing the employees
Didier Lombard Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of France Telecom	Bruno Bezard General manager of the Agency of the Participations of the State	Hélène Adam Members representing the employees
Bernard Dufau Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IBM France	Jacques de Larosière Advisor to Chairman of BNP Paribas	René Bernardi Members representing the employees
José-Luis Durán Chairman of Carrefour's Group Management Board	Henri Serres General manager of the Communication and Information systems to the Ministry for Defense	Jean-Michel Gaveau Members representing the employees
Charles-Henri Filippi Non-Executive Chairman of HSBC France		Member representing the shareholders employees
Claudie Haigneré Adviser of the General manager of the ESA (European Space Agency)		Stéphane Tierce Member representing the shareholders employees
Henri Martre Honorary Chairman of Aerospatiale		Representative of the Central Committee of Company
Marcel Roulet Honorary Chairman of France Telecom		Jean-Paul Gristi Representative of the Central Committee of Company
Jean Simonin Mayor and vice-president of a Community of communes
Company secretary Henri de Joux