Board of Directors

The Board of Directors of  SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT is composed of 18 members who were named for 4 years by the Special Meeting of Shareholders held on 15 July 2008 whom:

• 9 members appointed on the proposal of the GDF SUEZ Group,
• 5 members appointed on the proposal of the other shareholders of the agreement: Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (2), Areva (1), CNP (1) and Sofina (1), 
• 4 independent directors, jointly nominated by the parties to the shareholders' agreement as proposed by the Chairman of the Board.

In 2009, the Board met eight times, with an attendance rate of 86%. Mr. Angel Simòn abstained on several occasions from participating in meetings of the Board of Directors, due specifi cally to the discussions that were held in 2009 on the taking of a controlling interest in Agbar, a company listed on the Spanish market. The average attendance rate excluding Mr. Angel Simòn would have been 91%.

The main issues discussed related to the Company’s results (examination of the annual, half-year and quarterly results), the Group’s financing situation (debt, banking counterparties, available cash, EMTN Program), the plan to acquire control of all of Agbar’s water and environmental activities, and development projects such as the plan to respond to the call for bids from the State of Victoria, Australia, for a desalination plant, and the plan to respond to the call for bids from the Syndicat des Eaux d’Ile de France (SEDIF) to delegate management of the drinking water production and distribution service in Ile de France.

Find all the details on p. 351 of the Reference Document.

Gérard Mestrallet   Chairman of the Board of Directors Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GDF SUEZ           Jean-Louis Chaussade    Chief Executive Officer of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT Member of the GDF SUEZ Executive Committee

Gérald Arbola   Chief Operating  Officer of Areva	Alain Chaigneau   Member of the GDF SUEZ Executive Committee in charge of Business Strategy and Sustainable Developement	Gérard Lamarche   Executive Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer of GDF SUEZ Member of the GDF SUEZ Executive Committee
Nicolas Bazire   Chief Executive Officer of Groupe Arnault SAS	Jean-François Cirelli   Vice Chairman and President of GDF SUEZ	Guillaume Pepy   Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SNCF
Dirk Beeuswaert   Executive Vice-President of GDF SUEZ, in charge of the Energy Europe and International business Member of the GDF SUEZ Executive Committee	Lorenz d’Este   Managing Partner of E. Gutzwiller & Cie	Olivier Pirotte   Director of Equity Interests and Investment, Groupe Bruxelles Lambert
Gilles Benoist   Chief Executive Officer of CNP Assurance	Amaury de Sèze   Chairman of the Board of Directors of Carrefour SA Vice-President of the Power Corporation of Canada.	Ezra Suleiman   Professor of Political Science at Princeton University (IBM Chair).
Valérie Bernis   Member of the GDF SUEZ Executive Committee in charge of Communications and Financial Communications	Patrick Ouart   Member of the Executive Committee of LVMH and advisor to the LVMH group chairman	Jérôme Tolot   Member of the GDF SUEZ Executive Committee in charge of the Energy Services business line
Harold Boël   Chief Executive Officer of Sofina