Anne Lauvergeon

Quick Facts

Full Name	Anne Lauvergeon
Occupation	Engineer
Date Of Birth	Aug 2, 1959(1959-08-02)
Age	65
Birthplace	Dijon
Country	France
Birth City	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Horoscope	Leo

Anne Lauvergeon Biography

Anne Lauvergeon is one of the most popular and richest Engineer who was born on August 2, 1959 in Dijon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Anne Lauvergeon (born 2 August 1959) is an French businesswoman who was the CEO of Areva between 2001 and the year 2011. As per The Wall Street Journal, she is internationally recognized for being one of the most well-known advocates of nuclear power.

In the month of March 1997, Lauvergeon was appointed the general director of Alcatel prior to becoming a part of the executive committee of the company. In her new role she was responsible for international business activities as well as the industrial shares of the company in the nuclear and energy fields.

In addition to her role at Areva, Lauvergeon was part of other political and business initiatives. In 2001, France’s Minister of Science Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg chose her to chair the “national contest of assistance the creation of companies of innovating technologies”. In June 2010 Lauvergeon attended the Bilderberg conference in Sitges, Spain.

In 2004, Lauvergeon resisted a request from Nicolas Sarkozy, then finance minister, to help bail out French transport and energy company Alstom. When Alstom’s leadership announced plans in 2008 to create a heavy-engineering conglomerate by combining Alstom and Areva in a single entity, Lauvergeon reiterated her opposition.

As of 1995 Lauvergeon was recruited into the bank sector, becoming a managing partner at Lazard and was the sole female partner of the company. While working at Lazard she was a part-time employee for some time at Lazard’s investment banking New York office. In the latter part of 1996, she resigned from the company following a dispute with Edouard Stern and, according to reports in the media in the period, Stern had particularly taken off an invitation Lauvergeon was given to join the board of directors of French aluminum firm Pechiney.

Anne Lauvergeon Net Worth

Anne Lauvergeon is one of the richest Engineer from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Anne Lauvergeon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Lauvergeon was a student at the Ecole normale des jeunes filles, where she was able to pass the Agregation test in Physics. After that, she joined into the Corps des Mines. In 1983, she was enrolled in her first training course in the Corps de Mines, in the steel and iron industry located at Usinor. Another course in the field of vocational training was offered in 1984. place at the Commissariat a l’energie atomique, where she studied the safety of chemicals in Europe.

From 1985 until 1988, Lauvergeon was part of l’Inspection generale des carrieres (IGC). She was put in charge of the department for international trade and trade with foreign countries under French president Francois Mitterrand. In the following year she was appointed the assistant secretary general. Then, she was named “sherpa”, i.e. personal representative of the president. She was also was responsible for the preparation of international gatherings like for instance the G7 summit.

In June 1999 Lauvergeon was appointed CEO of the group Cogema, succeeding Jean Syrota, who resigned under pressure from The Greens. In July 2001, she merged Cogema, Framatome and other companies to create Areva. At the head of the new company, she became a member the small circle of women directing international corporations; in September 2002, daily economic newspaper Les Échos uncovered a report from the French Court of Auditors, citing Lauvergeon’s compensation (salary of €305,000 with bonus of €122,000) and “golden parachute” of two years’ wages.

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In July 2011 Lauvergeon was elected an International Fellow by the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK.

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Anne Ranked on the list of most popular Engineer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in France. Anne Lauvergeon celebrates birthday on August 2 of every year.

By 2011, Lauvergeon came under fire due to cost overruns at the Areva-built Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant and the loss of a $40 billion contract in Abu Dhabi to a South Korean consortium. On 16 June 2011 Prime Minister François Fillon announced that her mandate as head of Areva, terminating end of June 2011, would not be renewed. She was replaced by Luc Oursel, member of the Areva board of management since 2007.