Baudouin Prot

Independent member and Chairman of the Supervisory Board since December 2, 2016.

He is the former Chairman of the BNP Paribas Group and has been senior advisor to the Boston Consulting Group since July 2015. Mr. Prot joined BNP in 1983. In 1999, as Group Deputy CEO, he was instrumental in the acquisition of Paribas.
From 2003 to 2011 he was Group CEO. He transformed BNP Paribas into the first bank in the Eurozone by acquiring BNL in Italy in 2006 and Fortis in Belgium and Luxembourg in 2009. He was then BNP Paribas Chairman from 2011 to 2014.

Presently Mr. Prot is also Non Executive Chairman of Fraikin Group; Member of the Board of Kering, a world leader in luxury brands with 2020 revenues of €14.1 billion and net income of €2.1 billion; Member of the Board of Finastra, a leading fintech and software provider to 10,000 banks worldwide with 2020 revenues of $1.8 billion; and Member of the Board of Alstom, world leader in rail mobility (rolling stock and signaling) after its recent merger with Bombardier with a fleet of 100,000 vehicles worldwide.

Mr. Prot graduated from HEC Paris and from the École Nationale d’administration (ENA). He is an Officer of the Legion of Honour.