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Universalizing the world

The European HRD Circle was founded on the concept of corporate social responsibility. It is a concept that needs to be broadened, particularly in Europe, so that European companies can help to make the world a more universal place.

Yves Barou, Chairman of the European HRD Circle.

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Universalizing the world! Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor at Columbia University (in french)

Universalizing the world

From the outset, we have defined ourselves as European in order to promote the inclusive force of the European model and systematically seek a European solution to the problems encountered, while of course keeping our eyes open for other models in a world that is becoming more universal.

Five trends are driving the universalization of the world.
1 The economic world is increasingly globalized, with complex value chains and growing interdependence.
2 In terms of information and communication, the world is also increasingly globalized, even if there are barriers in some countries.
3 The issue of discrimination and inequality is being raised everywhere, but often in different terms, as if social issues were resisting globalization.
4 Today, we are all facing the same challenge, a common existential issue: global warming and climate change. A challenge for which, for the first time, we are all in the same boat.
5 Finally, the mixing and intermingling of populations and cultures is increasing every day.

The history of humanity is thus moving inexorably towards the
universal.

But this has led to a backlash, misunderstandings and friction that are now very visible, even at the risk of masking the underlying trend. While many ideas converge, unresolved differences are even more visible and can be shocking. Nationalist movements, whether political or military, but also ideological, are making themselves heard as a rejection of this development, as a long-standing complaint against this groundswell which, it is true, is causing some human damage in the process.

Faced with a variety of cultures – and this is what makes the world so rich – and aspirations that may seem different, should we then give up and declare that all ideas are equal?
Should we then abandon the idea of the universal, of universal human rights, and resign ourselves to cultural relativism? Should we accept that what is scandalous here is acceptable there?
I don't think so. On the contrary, I believe that cultural relativism is a lazy attitude.
I believe that, on the contrary, we need to work to universalize the world, because this is not a given, but an action; to universalize by taking into account the contributions of each person, by drawing on the diversity of cultures around one axis, that of human rights.
And this is very important for us Europeans, who are accused of having imposed our own conception of the universal, our Enlightenment universalism.

We therefore need to broaden corporate responsibility beyond the usual ESG criteria. Companies also have a role to play in promoting democratic principles around the world. It can and must "embrace" societal issues. They can and must embody human rights at a time when governments no longer always have this credibility.
Many citizens and employees in Africa, Latin America and Asia expect European companies to be exemplary in this way, and for this exemplarity to be contagious. Provided we avoid all flippant or even arrogant attitudes, the European company, with reasonable inequalities, respectful management, a sense of humanity, attention to living together and honest social dialogue, can be a driving force for this universalization.

Name
Company

Carl Azar

Antoine Amiel

Gino Balderacchi

Yves Barou

Muriel Bolteau

Fabienne Bricaud

Laetitia Brun

Isabelle Calvez

Wendy Cartwright

Florence Cauvet

Caroline Chanavas

Frédéric Clavière Schiele

François Curie

Laurence Dambrine

Clément De Villepin

Hélène Derrien

Stéphane Dubois

Hervé Dufoix

Hugues Fauville

Florence Gallois

Frédéric Ganet

Gilles Gateau

Caroline Gonin

Rainer Gröbel

Cornelia Hulla

Lydie Jallier

Steve Jefferys

Mériadec Jonville

Jérôme Julia

Leigh Lafever-Ayer

Bruno Laforge

Denis Langlois

Vincent Lavaux

Valérie Le Boulanger

Baptiste Le Sech

Céline Lemercier

Jérôme Leparoux

Sylvain Lobry

Loïc Mahé

Betty Mangatal

Claude Mathieu

Paul Mayer

Xavier Moulins

Jérôme Nanty

Khatia Paulmier

Frédéric Petitbon

Romain Raquillet

Jean-Christophe Sciberras

Dirk Schneemann

Liliane Sebas

Delphine Segura Vaylet

Isabelle Seneterre

Fabien Siguier

Claire Silva

Tobias Söchtig

Véronique Subileau

Magnus Tessner

Frédéric Thoral

Julia Tybura

Philippe Vivien

AG2R La Mondiale
APEC
Academy of Labour

Rainer Gröbel

Tobias Söchtig

Adisseo
Air France
Albioma
Alixio
Amundi
ArcelorMittal Canada
BNP Paribas
CMA CGM
CNES
Carrefour
Chanel
Daher
Danone
EDF
Entreprise Mobility
Euroapi
Europcar Mobility Group
FORVIA
Getlink
Group COLAS
IFP
Kea & Partners
Keolis
KingFisher
Learn Assembly
London Metropolitan University
Meridiam
Mundi
Newbridges
Orano Group
PPG
PWC Consulting
Réseau 137
SEB
SLB
Safran
Sanofi
Société Générale
Strategy& (PwC)
TRANSDEV GROUP
Thales
UGI International
Veolia
WFS
WorldLine
Zenon Consuling

Carl Azar

Carl Azar is Managing Director at Russell Reynolds Associates and co-leads the firm’s Industrial, Industrial B to B services and Natural Resources Sector in France.

He is also a member of the Board & CEO Advisory Practice in EMEA and leads Non-Executive, CEO and Senior Executive searches, management audits and succession planning projects for multinationals, as well as family or private-equity-owned companies. He is based in Paris.​

 

Carl re-joined Russell Reynolds Associates after nine years as Partner of Kienbaum Gmbh, a family led international Human Resources Management and Executive search company,  and Chair & CEO of Kienbaum SA, during which time he founded and led the HRD Cercle of family owned groups.

 

Prior to this, he was with Russell Reynolds Associates for eleven years, most recently leading the Infrastructure Practice in EMEA after previously leading the Chemicals, Materials and Processing Practice.

 

Carl started his career in the Michelin Group, where he spent a decade, as Sales Director, Europe, for the commercial vehicles product line. Previously, he held various global account, engineering and production positions in Europe and Japan.​

 

He received his degree in engineering from École Polytechnique and École Supérieure des Mines de Paris and his Executive MBA from the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP). He is fluent in English, French, German, Arabic and Japanese.

 

Antoine Amiel

Learn Assembly

Antoine is the founder of two companies: Learn Assembly, a strategy consulting firm dedicated to skills professionals, and Leaning Boost, a self-positioning platform helping assess employees’ skills and practices. Learn Assembly helps public and private organizations bring their strategy and their teams’ skills in sync. Antoine is also member of the Board of directors of “Acteurs de la Compétence” the professional organization for skills development professionals. In this context, he is in charge of working on the energy transition and skills.

Gino Balderacchi

KingFisher

Gino began his career at the Framatome Group in human resources where he spent nearly 7 years in various HR generalist positions.
He then joined the Vivendi group for 4 years as Human Resources Director at Telepiu, now Sky Italia, in Milan. After an experience in the CFAO Group as HRD of CFAO Technologies, Gino joined the Valeo Group where for nearly 14 years he held successively the positions of HRD of the Wiring Systems, HRD of the Lighting Systems, and from 2008 the position of Vice-President Human Resources, Business Group Visibility.
Gino joins the Kingfisher Group in March 2019 as HRD Kingfisher France.
He has a solid experience in industrial relations both in France and abroad, organizational developments as well as M&A operations, but above all he is passionate about human relations.

Yves Barou

European HRD Circle

Yves started his career as an economist at the Ministry of Finance between 1970 and 1984. In 1984, he joined the management of Rhone-Poulenc where he held operational positions in France and Africa and the position of group HR SVP based in the US. From 1998 to 2000, he was the Deputy Cabinet Director to Martine Aubry, French Minister of Employment and Solidarity, with responsibility for employment, integration and training.

Between 2000 and 2010, he was Senior Vice-President, Human Resources and Social Affairs at Thales. In this capacity, he introduced a new approach to management, promoted forward planning and negotiated two important European agreements introducing European standards for professional development and assessment.

He was Social Responsibility advisor in FSI (The French Sovereign Found, now BPI) from 2010 to 2013.

From 2012 and 2017, he has been Chairman of AFPA (the French agency for the vocational training of adults).
He created the European HRD Circle in 2010 and is still its chairman today.

Muriel Bolteau

Réseau 137

A graduate of Paris-Dauphine, Muriel Bolteau has worked for more than 30 years at the heart of Retail, Services and Supply Chain, notably within the Carrefour Group. She has successively been HRD, Talent Director and Transformation Director. She has supported teams and organisations through many instances of cultural and organisational change, and has in particular played a role in the creation of a national space for employment and partnerships, the acquisition of the Erteco chain of stores, and the implementation of talent and executive development practices. In 2019, she joined Alixio to found and lead Réseau137, the next-generation transitional executive firm. She is currently a member of the Alixio Executive Committee and General Manager of search & Talent executive practices for the Group.

Fabienne Bricaud

WFS

Fabienne is a highly experienced cross-cultural B2B HR Director. She started her career with Alcatel-Alsthom, in the telecoms & engineering sector, where she gained experience within its operating divisions, first in France and soon after internationally. In 2013, Fabienne became Group HR Director for Mobivia, Europe’s leading multi-brand provider of vehicle servicing & parts, which employs today 22,000 people. Since 2017, Fabienne has been Global Head of People at Worldwide Flight Services, a global airport logistics leader, which operates 168 airport stations in 20 countries with 32,000 employees around the world.

Laetitia Brun

Getlink

Laetitia is Group Chief HR Officer at Getlink (Eurotunnel Group), member of the Executive Committee, based in the United Kingdom. She has nearly twenty years of professional experience in Human Resources. For fifteen years within Rhodia & Solvay Groups in chemical industry, she held various positions ranging from learning & development, career management, project management, HR and industrial relations management for industrial sites to HRD of European and International functions and businesses. In 2015, she was appointed as HRD for Energy & Sustainable Development Group Function. More recently, she was Group Chief HR Officer Winoa, private equity owned SME company, in metallurgy industry. She has mainly worked in Lyon, Grenoble, Paris (Fr), Brussels (Be) and now in Folkestone (UK).

Isabelle Calvez

Veolia

A graduate of the Institute d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, Isabelle began her career at THALES, where she held positions in both Human

Resources and Operations, before joining Canal+. In 2003, she was appointed as Accenture’s Human Resources VP for France and Benelux and Groupama’s Group Human Resources VP in 2007. In 2012, Isabelle Calvez became Human Resources VP at Carrefour France. On April 18, 2017, Isabelle became Group Chief Human Resources Officer at SUEZ. Since Veolia bought Suez last year, Isabelle is now HR Executive VP Group at Veolia.

Wendy Cartwright

Wendy has held senior HR and Corporate Services roles in both public and private sectors, and now has a portfolio of project and non-executive roles.  She is particularly interested in major projects, creating high-performing organisations, and helping senior leadership teams to navigate change effectively within complex and challenging environments. Her former roles include HR Director for the London 2012 Olympic Delivery Authority and for the Houses of Parliament Restoration and Renewal Programme.

Wendy has a keen interest in effective governance, organisational culture, EDI, and engagement and wellbeing. She has a Master’s degree in Employment Strategy and has been made a Chartered Companion of the CIPD, which is the highest level of membership awarded by the UK HR professional body.

Florence Cauvet

Sanofi

Florence Cauvet held various positions in Human Resources within three major French groups before joining Sanofi.
From 1995 to 2005, Florence was successively HR Manager at France Telecom Mobile Radiomessagerie, Yellow Pages and the R&D Division at Orange.
In 2005, she joined Areva Group where she hold operational positions as Director of Social Relations (La Hague), HR Director of the Chemistry and Enrichment BUs in Pierrelatte and Narbonne, and finally Director of Human Resources France in charge of Group social negotiations, employment in the territories, recruitment of engineers and the implementation of HR shared services centers.
From 2014 she supported the transformation of Altice Group (SFR and NextradioTV). After being Director of Social Affairs, she was since 2016 Director of Human Resources France, member of the Executive Committee.
Florence Cauvet joined Sanofi Group in 2020 as Director of Human Resources France (25,000 employees),
Florence holds a postgraduate degree in Human Resources Management from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas and a postgraduate degree in Labor Law from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.

Caroline Chanavas

EDF

Caroline, with almost 30 years’ experience in strategic and operational functions,
has been Director of Human Resources for the EDF Group since July 2023.
Prior to this, she was Director of Human Resources at Naval Group for 6 years, in charge
of implementing a human resources policy that guarantees the Group’s increased
competitiveness and its transformation in France and internationally. She joined Naval Group
in 2013 as Head of Purchasing for the Services division.
Between 2006 and 2013, she was successively Director of Purchasing, Commercial Operations
and Strategy and Marketing for the Air Operations Division of the Thales Group, after having
been Director of Asia-Pacific Strategy for the Bull Group.
Caroline began her career in China as Managing Director of the Schlumberger-Sema
subsidiary she set up, before taking over the Group’s Alliances and Partnerships Division,
based in France. She holds a post-graduate diploma (DESS) in multilingual engineering from
INALCO and EHESS, a master’s degree in Chinese (including a year’s study in Taiwan)
and is a former auditor of the IHEDN.

Frédéric Clavière Schiele

Société Générale

Frederic is Head of corporate Social Affairs at Société Générale, a company he joined in 2010 as deputy head of social affairs. Prior to that, he was HR Director for BUT for 2 years and head of Social and Legal Affairs at PSA Peugeot Citroën from September 2002 to July 2007.

François Curie

 François holds a masters degree in law. He started his career in 1986 as HR manager at Philips. He then moved to Alcan where he held various HR positions at plant, regional, business group and corporate levels based in France, Switzerland and Canada. His last position was Vice-president Human Resources Environment Health and Safety for Rio Tinto Alcan, the aluminum division of Rio Tinto, headquartered in Montreal, Canada. Francois has been Vallourec group HR VP from 2010 to 2022.

Laurence Dambrine

CMA CGM

Swiss, French with an Australian background, Laurence Dambrine started her career in the financial services as a business Leader prior to moving onto HR Leadership roles in 2009 across different industries.

From VP HR in Norsk Hydro, hired by Ferrero as SVP HR for leading the group’s transformation project onto Chief HR Officer of CMA CGM Group.

She’s also led HSE, internal communication and CSR (Ferrero & Norsk Hydro).

Laurence joined CMA CGM Group in January 2021 as Group Chief HR Officer to create the role and bring the function at the right level to enable the business’ exponential growth

Clément De Villepin

Thales

Clément de Villepin began his career in 1996 with the Valeo Group, where he served in a number of roles including head of human resources for industrial operations.

In 2001, he joined the Scottish & Newcastle Group and Brasseries Kronenbourg, where he was successively head of human resources for the industry and R&D activities; competitiveness project

lead; head of human resources for the on-trade market & retail departments and head of human resources for the sales, marketing and retail business.

From 2008 to 2016, at the Suez Group, he was human resources director and a member of the Executive Committee of the international division, having previously served as human resources director.

From 2016, Clément de Villepin served as Group Human Resources Director at Transdev, and supported the Group’s growth and competitiveness plans in France and internationally as a member of the Transdev Executive Committee.

He joined the Thales Group in April 2021 as Senior Executive Vice President,

Human Resources.

Hélène Derrien

Orano Group

Helene has been head of people and communications at Orano for almost 15 years. She started her career in 1990 at Alcatel-Lucent and held several positions at CFAO, a subsidiary of PPR, between January 2003 and March 2007.

Stéphane Dubois

Safran

After having held HR responsibilities within Pechiney, Rio Tinto and Société Générale, Stéphane became Human Resources Director of the Safran group in 2019.

Hervé Dufoix

Hervé joined Rhône Poulenc in 1983 where he held various positions in HR in France and in the US. He has served as HR Vice President for the pharmaceutical research and development in France, for Rh.ne Poulenc Rorer international operations as Senior Vice-President for the Nutrition Division of Aventis. He joined Thales Group in 2000 where he was successively Vice-President Human Resources Naval Division and Land and Joint Systems Division. He was appointed as Senior Vice-President for DCNS Group in 2007 and advisor to the CEO. He was the HR Director of the French continuous learning association, AFPA, for several years and national mediator until December 31, 2018.

Hugues Fauville

ArcelorMittal Canada

Senior Business leader with international Board Member experiences in Europe, North America, Morocco. Strong of over 30 years of significant worldwide expertise in Human Resources in Steel and Automotive industries, as well as in sales and consulting, Hugues owns diversified experiences in operational and corporate executive positions.

Since 2020, Hugues has been Board member of IMR (Integrated Metal recycling) the steel recycling champion in Quebec and Vice-President, Human Resources & Communication of ArcelorMittal Long Products Canada, based in Montreal.

Hugues started his career working as a sales engineer in automation, process and control solutions, before holding Sales and Human Resources positions at ABN AMRO-Lease plan, Société Générale-ALD Automotive, Faurecia and Valeo. He joined ArcelorMittal in 2007 leading the restructuring project at Gandrange industrial site in France.

Hugues Fauville graduated from the IFG-Institut Français de Gestion de Paris. He is certified in Institutional Transformation and a member of IFSI-FIIS (International Forum of Social innovation). Passionate about aviation, Hugues holds French and Canadian private pilot licenses.

Florence Gallois

WorldLine

Since April 2023, Florence Gallois has been Chief People Officer at Worldline.

Florence Gallois began her career in recruitment before joining Thales, where she spent 14 years in France and the UK, working in various international HR positions,in the aerospace, cyber security, and defense sectors.Florence then joined CGG as Director of HR and Talent Development and Director of the Corporate University.In 2016, she joined Zodiac Aerospace as Director of Human Resources for Zodiac Seats, which became Safran Seats following Safran’s acquisition of Zodiac in 2018.

In 2020, Safran nominated her for the position of Director of Human Resources at Ariane Group, a company created in 2015 on the initiative of Airbus Group and Safran and owned 50/50 by the two groups.Florence Gallois is a graduate of the IAE business school in Aix-en-Provence. She is of French and British nationality and has lived in the UK for seven years.

Frédéric Ganet

Director of Human Resources, Communications & CSR

Gilles Gateau

APEC

Gilles exercised several responsibilities within the ANPE from 1986 then from 1994 to 1997 became Deputy General Manager. He was technical adviser to the Prime Minister from 1997 to 2001 before joining EDF where he was manager of employee shareholding and skills management. From 2012 to 2014 he was Director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Labor then in 2014-2015, Deputy Director of the Cabinet of the Prime Minister. From 2015 to 2019 he was HRD at AIR France. Since 2020, he has been Managing Director of APEC, the association for executive employment.

Caroline Gonin

TRANSDEV GROUP

Caroline Gonin has been appointed Transdev Group Chief Human Resources Officer on 2021 July 15.
She started her career in France in 1995 at Areva as Industrial Relations Manager at La Hague site. She then held several positions as HR Manager of business units, before becoming Director of Areva University in 2009. In 2012, based in New Delhi (India), she became Director of Alstom University. In 2015, she joined the Renault-Nissan Alliance, in France, and became Director of Learning and Development, in close relation with Japan. At the beginning of 2017, she joined Valeo as HR Director of the Transmission Systems product group and was promoted to VP Human Resources of Valeo Thermal Systems in March 2019.

 

Rainer Gröbel

Academy of Labour

Rainer has been head of the human resources department of the largest German trade union IG-Metall since 1998. He has also been responsible for the organizational department and coordinating executive tasks. He has experience from various supervisory boards in the industry for more than 30 years. He is currently a member of the supervisory boards of GEA Group in Düsseldorf and Schunk Group in Heuchelheim. He has also been an honorary judge at the federal labor court in Frankfurt/Main. Before joining the IG-Metall, he was an industrial clerk and studied economics and labor law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.

Cornelia Hulla

Mundi

Until 2014 Cornelia was the Global Head of HR at GEA Group AG, a leading manufacturing company. Prior, she was a member of the board of directors at Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke AG, responsible among others for Human Resources. Before that, she held various executive positions in national as well as international HR Management with Coca-Cola as well as Deutsche Bank. She has a long track record in transformation projects such as Post-Merger-Integration and Business Transformations as well as substantial experience in restructuring and collective bargaining. She is a founding member of the German Federal Association of HR Managers (BPM) and is part of their Executive Committee. She was a member of the supervisory board of the HPV Hamburger Pensionsverwaltung e.G. and is part of the executive committee of the European HR Director’s Circle. She is now Director Human Resources Europe & International at Mundi.

Lydie Jallier

Keolis

Lydie Jallier began her career in 1998 at Delphi Europe, Middle East & Africa Headquarters, first in continuous improvement and as Internal Communication Manager. In 2003, She is appointed Human Resources Manager, then Director for various global product lines.

In 2008, she joined Technip as Head of Talent for Subsea Activities and Onshore-Offshore Project Management for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In 2010, she is appointed Human Resources Director of the Group headquarters, and in 2013, Human Resources Director, based in Rome, Italy, for Onshore-Offshore activities in Southern Europe, the Middle East, Russia & Latin America.

In 2016, she joined Zodiac Aerospace as Global Training and Talent Director. In 2017, she is appointed Group Human Resources Director until the acquisition of the company by Safran and in March 2018, she became a member of the Global Integration Team in charge of Human Resources.

In October 2018, she joined Safran Landing Systems as Executive Vice President in Human Resources and is appointed in 2022 Senior Vice President, Recruitment and Talent Development for Safran.

In September 2023, she joined Keolis as Group Executive Human Resources Director.

Steve Jefferys

London Metropolitan University

After working in the car industry and as a journalist Steve wrote a PhD and book called Management and Managed: Fifty years of Cri- sis at Chrysler. After several years as a visiting professor at Grenoble University he became Professor of European Employment Studies at London Metropolitan University in 2000, the year he published Management, Work and Welfare in Western Europe. Three years later, then Director of Londonmet’s Working Lives Research Insti tute, he wrote Liberté, Egalité and Fraternité at Work: Changing French Employment Relations and Management. In the last three years he has published three jointly edited books: Globalizing Employment Relations, Globalization and Precarious Forms of Pro-duction and Employment, and Changing Work and Community Identities in European Regions.

Mériadec Jonville

Strategy& (PwC)

Mériadec is a Strategy& partner based in Paris. where he develops HR M&A capabilities.
Expert of People issues in deals and reorganizations, he supports Boards in their transformation projects from the business case to the social negotiation. He also advises more broadly on operational transaction services and restructuring projects, including turnaround.
He joined PwC in 2013 after 5 years in the Social Strategy team of a leading HR Consulting company and a 2 year CRO support to a Private Equity fund participation. He holds a Master in employment
law and a MBA from the IE Business School of Madrid.

Jérôme Julia

Kea & Partners

A graduate of HEC (1993) and with a DEA in Law from La Sorbonne (1997), Jérôme Julia began his career at L’Oréal in Germany, then at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the consulting division. In 2004, he helped launch Kea&Partners, a start-up consultancy focused on responsible transformation, where he became Senior Partner in charge of the Services practice. In twenty years, Kea has become a recognised multi-disciplinary ETI, an independent partnership focused on consulting for General Management, with 250 consultants in France and 1,500 in Europe. Kea is one of the first French companies to become a mission-driven company at the start of 2020, and has been awarded the B-Corp label. As a member of the management team, Jérôme contributes to the strategic, organisational, technological, managerial and cultural transformation of numerous companies and industries in France and Europe. He is also a visiting lecturer at a number of leading business schools, including HEC and ESSEC. He is a frequent speaker at conferences in France and abroad. An expert in corporate functions and a convinced European, he has been a member of the Cercle des DRH européens for 10 years. A leader in the emergence and development of extra-financial and intangible aspects of companies, Jérôme has been Chairman of the Observatoire de l’immatériel since 2014. This association brings together certain public authorities, a panel of companies, several university professors, companies, etc.

 

Leigh Lafever-Ayer

Entreprise Mobility

As VP HR UK and Ireland, Leigh Lafever-Ayer is responsible for driving employee engagement and career opportunities for employees. Like many others at Enterprise Mobility, Leigh started her career as a graduate in branch operations and has held many positions in operations and human resources.

Leigh is passionate about creating an inclusive environment for all. Enterprise Mobility has been recognised by The Times as a Top 50 Employer for Women for many years and is ranked #24 in the Social Mobility Foundation Index.  Recently, Enterprise Mobility was ranked #1 in Rate My Placement for internship opportunities and The Graduate Employer of the Year 2024 by TargetJobs.  They are also ranked #59 in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers.

Outside of the workplace, Leigh is on the Business In The Community Gender Equality Leadership Board, Global Diversity Practice Advisory Board, the Digital Marketing Association Talent Committee and Royal Holloway University London School of Business and Management Advisory Board.

Bruno Laforge

Euroapi

Bruno Laforge is Chief Human Resources and Corporate Affairs Officer. He has been with the Sanofi Group since 2011, joining with the group at Sanofi Pasteur. There, he worked in the vaccines Global Business Unit from 2015 to 2017 and later rose to become Vice President of Human Resources Research & Development. He was made Head of HR for Europe and France in August 2017. He also served as Business Partner HR for Sanofi Business Transformation.

Bruno’s career began at Johnson & Johnson, where he became Human Resources Director for France and Benelux in 1999. In 2001, he took over Human Resources at Guilbert, and then became Head of Human Resources for Europe at Office Depot. In 2007, he became Vice President of Human Resources at Geoservices, where he also served as head of Mergers & Acquisitions until 2010.

Bruno holds master’s degrees in Economics and History, a Higher Diploma in Human Resources from Sciences Po, and an MBA from HEC.

Bruno likes diverse cultures (he lived in several countries: US, Singapore and Netherlands) and is passionate about car races, golf, and modern paintings (street art, modern art).

Denis Langlois

Europcar Mobility Group

Denis Langlois has been the Human Resources Director of Europcar Mobility Group since 2017. From 1985 to 2002, Denis held various managerial roles in Human Resources within several international groups. He joined Technicolor in 2002 as Division Human Resources Director, and from 2005 to 2009 was Director of the Group’s Electronic Components and Consumer Activities Division. He returned to the Human Resources function in 2009, first at Lagard.re as Human Resources Director of Lagard.re Active then Director of Group Talent Management, then from 2013 as Human Resources Director of Idemia.

Vincent Lavaux

SLB

Vincent Lavaux is currently HR Director in SLB (previously Schlumberger), for the

Reservoir Performance division, generating 7B revenue with 22,000 people in 75 countries.

Graduated from IEP Bordeaux and Ciffop, he spent most of his career internationally, mainly in North America, but also in Belgium, Algeria and the UK.

After 3 years in Schlumberger he joined Forvia in 2003 where he spent 7 years in France and in the US, before coming back to Schlumberger in 2010. Since then he has been in various HR operational roles supporting business in context of upturn or downturn.
Throughout these HR leadership positions, he has also led or participated to major HR transformation projects to modernize and improve HR performance in global organizations.

Valérie Le Boulanger


Valérie left Orange in 2022 where she served as Executive Director of Human Resources since 2018. In her past career she was Executive Director-Human Resources at Orange SA and Director-Employee Relations at Crédit du Nord SA. She received an undergraduate degree from Ecole de Management de Normandie.

Baptiste Le Sech

PPG

Baptiste started his career in 2006 as C&B manager France at GE Healthcare and then held various HR positions, in various GE Businesses (Real estate, Oil & Gas, Renewable Energy) at country, regional, & global level based in France and United Kingdom. Baptiste Joined PPG as HR Leader for AC EMEA South in July 2021.

Céline Lemercier

Group COLAS

Céline joined Group Colas as HRD of EMEA & Specialties since December 2022.

After 7 years spent as HR Manager in plants in Central Soya and Valeo, Céline was expatriated to the USA by Valeo and has then evolved to international HR Executive positions in Valeo, Hillebrand, Rexam, Compagnie des Alpes and Louvre Hotels (Jin Jiang Group). Her last position was with UGI Corporation, a 8+ billion company specialized in gas distribution, as Group Director HR for its European subsidiary which she contributed to structure.

Jérôme Leparoux

Daher

Jérôme began his career as a business manager with Altran. In 2004, he joined Areva Nuclear Cycle as

Deputy HR Director. In 2007, he was appointed HR Director of Areva Nuclear Measurement, then in 2010 of Areva Fuel, and Areva Renewable Energies in 2012, before taking on the post of Director of HRand Management Development of the Areva group in 2014.He joined Daher in October 2015, as Director of Human Resources and member of the Executive Committee.

Sylvain Lobry

Danone

Over nearly 20 years of HR practice at Danone, he played a number of different roles, from Organization Development to HRD roles, with a deep commitment in Labor Relations. More specifically, he has been HRD for Africa-Middle East, supporting the launch of Danone in some of the countries in the region, and more recently HRD Operations in the Essential Dairy and Plant-based Division of Danone, coordinating the adaptation of the teams to the changing needs of the market. In his current role, he leads Danone’s partnership with the IUF (International Union of Food Workers) which sets the pace for Social Dialogue in the company globally.

Loïc Mahé

Loïc started his career in 1980 in the Personnel and Social Affairs department, then Head of HR for an industrial facility and subsequently Head of Career Development for the Company’s Aeronautical Equipment branch. He became HR Director for the Telecommunication Division in 1988. from 1993 to 1998, he was HR Director at the Paris Chamber of Trade and Industry. He then joined PPR Group as HR and Communication Director for the office supplies company Guilbert before holding several positions at Thales in 2000-2013. his last HR position was that of VP HR Industrial Affairs at Sanofi. He is now a consultant.

Betty Mangatal

Meridiam

Betty joined Meridiam in September 2005 as Human Resources Manager. She previously worked for Egis Projects as Human Resources Manager.

Claude Mathieu

FORVIA

After working for Andersen Consulting in Paris and Chicago, Claude joined Usinor-Sacilor with different positions dealing with HR, industrial restructuring and early workforce planning. He joined the Group in 1994 with the creation/merger of Messier-Dowty, then in charge of HR development and industrial relations for the French subsidiary. He became HRD in 1997. In 2001, Claude was appointed as Group VP HR of Messier-Dowty International. He became VP of HR of Sagem Defense Security in 2007. He is also a Professor at Science-Po Paris. He is now Business Group HR VP at Forvia.

Paul Mayer

Albioma

Paul began his career at SNECMA in 1981 holding various HR positions. He joined Steelcase Strafor in 1992 as HRD France and then as Factory Director. He then joined Tetra Laval in 1998, holding successively positions of HRD for Tetra Pak France, VP HR for the Aseptic Business Unit in Sweden, EVP HR for the Sidel Group. From 2008 to 2017 he has been appointed to various senior HR positions for Tetra Pak in Europe and in the Middle East and lately was Cluster Leader HR Europe and Central Asia. He has been a tutor of the International track of CIFFOP since 2007. Paul joined Albioma in October 2018 as Group HR Director.

Xavier Moulins

Xavier has been HRD France and Central Europe at DXO Logistics since 2021 after having been HRD at Getlink from 2012 to 2020 and previously Director of Social Affairs at Vinci.

Jérôme Nanty

Carrefour

Jérôme began his career in 1986 at Société Générale before joining Crédit Lyonnais in 1989. In 1998, he joined the bank’s HR department as manager of employment policy and later labor relations. From 2001 to 2004, he served as Director of Labor and Social Relations for Crédit Lyonnais, then from 2003 onwards at Crédit Agricole. He was appointed as Director of HR at LCL in 2005 and Caisse des Dépôts in 2008. From 2013 to 2016, he was General Secretary of Transdev. In July 2016, he became General Secretary and Director of HR of Air France-KLM. In 2017, he joined Carrefour as Executive Director for Human Resources for the Group and France.

Khatia Paulmier

Chanel

Khatia has been Global Head of People and Organization – Parfums Beauty at Chanel since March 2021. Before that, she held various HR positions at Solvay for almost 8 years. She started her career at Peugeot in 1996 before joining BT where she stayed over 10 years. From 2011 to 2013, she was head of HR Europe at Redcats in Paris.

Frédéric Petitbon

PWC Consulting

Frédéric Petitbon (ESSEC, post graduate in organizational sociology at Sciences Po Paris) is a management consultant in PwC Advisory, after 25 years as a consultant in IDRH. He works as a consultant in change management issues, HR issues, upskilling challenges.

He teaches organization sociology and Change management at Paris Sorbonne IAE and at Sciences Po Paris.

He is the chairman of the academic awards for the best articles on management organized by the French consulting Syndicate Syntec.
He co-leads the « Entreprise full RSE » initiative, involving more than 100 companies, professional associations, academics, in order to shape each function, from finance to supply and HR, in a “full
sustainable world”.

Romain Raquillet

Air France

Former head of strategic practice and social dialogue at LHH Altedia, Romain became head of social affairs at Air France in 2019. this former Syndex consultant notably worked for the cabinets of Christophe Sirugue, François Rebsamen, Michel Sapin and Emmanuel Macron during François Hollande’s presidency.

Jean-Christophe Sciberras

Newbridges

Jean-Christophe is CEO and co-founder at Newbridges, an International Employee Relations consulting firm. Before starting this firm, he has had ample experience in the fields of HR and social relations in France and abroad, working for 35 years for multinational companies (auto industry, chemistry, insurance as well as the French administration).

Dirk Schneemann

Dirk started his professional growth in the company in 1995 and during the years held various positions, including HR Director and Retail Director in both France and Germany. Prior to his involvement in Total he worked in the Foreign Trade Department of GDR in Paris from 1987 to 1989 and then joined Bull- Group and Bull AG Deutschland, working in the sphere of Business Development, HR Development and Training Projects. As HR consultant, he manages the training center for small oil companies in Germany and created Euraccess GmbH.

Liliane Sebas

CNES

In 1997, Liliane joined the French Centre for Space Studies (CNES, Centre national d’études spatiales), where she held different HR positions: at the Guianese Space Center until 2004, as HR correspondent, in charge of training, then at the CNES headquarters from 2004 to 2017 as HR correspondent, in charge of social relations, head of the skills and careers service and then deputy HR development manager. In 2018, she took part in the Strategy 2025 working group and was then appointed head of change management. Liliane is now head of HR.

Delphine Segura Vaylet

SEB

Delphine started her career at Thales, where she held various HR Director positions in the 13 years she spent at the Group. She then moved to STMicroelectronics in 2007 to take on the role of Group HR Director in the Digital Consumer Division. For 4 years, she was also responsible for People Development and Performance Management of Organizations, and then in charge of Training at the Group level. In 2014, she joined Zodiac Aerospace as Group HR Director and COMEX member until it was sold to Safran. She then joined the TOTAL Group in 2017 as VP in charge of Group HR Strategy and Policy. Delphine joined Groupe SEB in January 2021 as Deputy Managing Director, HR.

Isabelle Seneterre

Amundi

Isabelle started her career at the Cr.dit Lyonnais in 1989, working in New York and Paris, mostly in corporate functions. In 1997, she went to Prague for 3 years and developed recruitment and social audit activities for Carrefour, which was settling in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Back in France, she went back to Crédit Lyonnais and kept working in HR. She joined Amundi in 2010 as deputy HR Director and became Senior HR manger one year later.

Fabien Siguier

Adisseo

Executive VP HRand Transformation, Fabien joined Adisseo in July 2018. He started his career in the dairy food industry, where he held the position of Director of Organization Projects and then Director of HR, in a context of internationalization and acquisitions. After a 3-year assignment in the French defense industry, he joined the Valeo group, where he worked for 10 years in various positions as Global Director of HR, in a context of transformation of the profession and development of the Chinese Market.

Claire Silva

AG2R La Mondiale

In 1998, Claire started her career as head of HR within Alstom Group and then in 2000 with Thales. In 2003, she becomes head of social and social-legal relations at Thales Air Defence. She joined McDonald’s France in April 2014 before being promoted Senior VP in charge of HR and joining the executive committee in March 2016. in 2018, she was appointed member of the Board of AG2R LA MONDIALE in charge of HR. She is now also head of social relations.

Tobias Söchtig

Academy of Labour

Tobias is consultant at the University of Labour in Frankfurt/Germany. He is responsible for HR, Resources and the overall functions. He has a broad expertise in German labour relations and worked for the German unions, IG Metall and DGB. After he completed his vocational education as an industrial clerk at Daimler AG in Braunschweig/Germany, he studied political sciences and economics in Bremen, Lüneburg and Brisbane/Australia with a focus on labor economics.

Véronique Subileau

UGI International

Véronique started her career as Head of HR Strategy & OrganizaFon at the Caisse des Dépôts in 2010, before she moved to Transdev in 2013 as CSR Group Director and then HR Group Director. She spent a year with Bolloré. As Group HR Development Director, 3 years as “Talent & Development” Deputy General Director with BPI group. She was appointed Vice-President Human Resources in February 2022.

Magnus Tessner

IFP

Magnus worked for many years in the automotive industry (Ford Motor Company and BMW AG) and was subsequently managing director of a trading company with over 2,500 employees. Magnus joined ifp in 2001, built up the automotive & retail practice Group and has since personally advised over 500 clients. At the same time, he has played a key role in the development of ifp’s international consulting activities and served as Chairman of ISG – International Search Group and Vice-Chairman of Horton International.

Magnus was member of several advisor boards during his career.

Frédéric Thoral

BNP Paribas

Frédéric began his career in 1989 at Rank Xerox France, then joined the Bouygues group before working his way up through the SFR Cegetel group from 1995 to 2004, where he was promoted to Deputy HR Director. Furthermore, he was Chairman of UNETEL-RST, from 2001 to 2003. After a stint at the AREVA group from 2004 to 2007, where he was VP HR & Management Development, he moved to Oberthur Technologies as Group Senior VP HR and member of the group’s executive committee tasked with se}ng up an international HR team. Frédéric takes over as Head of HR for IRS in 2004. He joined BNP Paribas in 2008 as Head of HR in charge of HR development and is now head of HR.

Julia Tybura

Zenon Consuling

As a leader, board director, owner/manager and charity trustee with over 25 years’ experience in HR, OD and general management roles, Julia combines national policy level access and thinking with a deep understanding of specific culture issues and their solutions. Julia’s expertise lies in offering advice and support on board, leadership and organisational development, stakeholder engagement, strategy making and governance. Julia currently sits on two Boards of Trustees – Borough Market and the Healthcare People Management Association London Academy.

Philippe Vivien

Alixio

In 1985, Philippe began his career as Junior HR at FRAMATOME. In 1992, he was appointed HR Director for the Industrial Equipment department. In 1996, he became head of FRAMATOME’s HR Department, before becoming VP, HR at FCI and a member of the Executive Committee in 1999. In 2002, he was appointed VP for HR and Communication at FCI. Since January 2004, he was Senior Executive VP, HR for the group. In October 2005, he became member of the AREVA group’s Executive Committee. He joined Alixio in January 2013 as COO of the consulting activity. He was appointed Group Vice-president in 2020.