2023-09-12 12:00:48
He says he is “focused” and “enthusiastic like a kid”. After leading the social movement against pension reform, Laurent Berger radically changed his life by joining a bank. The former secretary general of the CFDT will join Crédit Mutuel on September 15, to set up a center of expertise dedicated to “the climate and environmental revolution”, the mutual banking group announced on Tuesday, as part of a governance development project.
This “Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale Institute” will be directly attached to general management and entrusted to Laurent Berger “who joins the group on September 15 and will have to lead the mission of prefiguring this institute, so that it will be operational in spring 2024, a specified Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale in a press release. The production of this center of expertise will be used by the operational teams, while respecting their responsibilities. »
Close to the president of Crédit Mutuel
At 54, Laurent Berger joined the mutual bank after leaving the head of the CFDT. A turning point that he also describes in an interview in the worldpublished this Tuesday morning.
General secretary of the union organization since November 2012, he was replaced in June by Marylise Léon, number two in the union since 2018. Both led the battle against the pension reform in the first half of 2023, which was finally adopted.
The former trade unionist is close to Nicolas Théry, president of Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale and himself a former member of the CFDT. He held the position of Confederal Secretary responsible for economic issues for two years, between 2000 and 2002.
Furthermore, the group announced that its general director Daniel Baal will take over as chairman of the board of directors of CIC on January 1, 2024, and will thus become the new manager of this subsidiary bank of Crédit Mutuel.
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