INFO THE FIGARO – Received at the Élysée on Wednesday afternoon, Luc Rémont will succeed Jean-Bernard Lévy.
End of suspense. Luc Rémont, in charge of international operations at Schneider Electric, will be appointed head of EDF, where he will succeed Jean-Bernard Lévy, whose mandate expired next spring. Big favorite in the race for the leadership of the public company since it opened in July, Luc Rémont was received on Wednesday afternoon at the Elysée Palace by the Head of State. The formalization of this choice is now imminent.
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Emmanuel Macron has, according to our information, finally decided for a single governance. Luc Rémont will be CEO of the electrician, like his predecessor. The executive hesitated for a long time on this point, considering – the Élysée seemed particularly attached to it – a dissociated governance as has become the rule in most companies in which the State is a shareholder, such as at Engie or Renault. Replicating this model in a 100% state-owned group is less obvious. “Dissociating for the sake of dissociating does not make sense. It only has…
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