INVESTIGATION – Appointed on Wednesday, the polytechnician has been increasing field visits and meetings with leaders for weeks, with the blessing of the outgoing CEO.
To prepare in silence, even in secret, for the most exposed CEO position in France. By necessity as by taste, Luc Rémont has prepared, far from the spotlight, to take over from Jean-Bernard Lévy at the head of EDF.
You don’t become a boss like you become a minister, overnight. It took several weeks for Luc Rémont, approached for the position in mid-July and big favorite in September, to sign the contract and take up his duties. He will be officially appointed this Wednesday, in the Council of Ministers. Appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, like his predecessor. And so much the worse for the recent doctrine of the State shareholder, which privileges the dissociation of the functions of president and general manager. To Emmanuel Macron, who received it on September 28, he said it very clearly: in the name of efficiency, EDF needs a CEO, the situation being already complex enough not to add one. “The way he achieved non-dissociation was quite spectacular”said with a smile…
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