Jean-Louis Chaussade

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Jean-Louis Chaussade

 

57 years
Director, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT
Member of the Executive Committee of GDF SUEZ

 

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Start date of current mandate: July 22, 2008

Termination date of mandate: General Shareholders’ Meeting which approves the financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2011

 

 

 

Biography

 Jean-Louis Chaussade, born December 2, 1951, French, has an engineering degree from E.S.T.P. (1976) and holds a Master’s degree in Economics (Sorbonne, 1976). He is also a graduate of Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (1980) and of AMP at Harvard Business School (1988). He fi rst joined Degrémont in 1978, and was then appointed Chief Operating Officer of Degrémont Spain in Bilbao in 1989. During this period he was appointed Director of Aguas de Barcelona. Mr. Chaussade was also appointed Chief Executive Officer of Dumez Copisa Spain in 1992.

In 1997, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Lyonnaise des Eaux in South America and Chief Operating Offi cer of SUEZ for South America. He was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Degrémont in 2000 and, in 2004, Executive Vice-President of SUEZ and Chief Executive Officer of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT. Mr. Chaussade is also a Director of Aguas de Barcelona (Spain), United Water (United States), Lyonnaise des Eaux (France), Degrémont, Terralys (France) and SITA France. He has been Chief Executive Officer of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT Company since July 23, 2008.