LE FIGARO INFO – Received at the Élysée on Wednesday afternoon, Luc Rémont was the big favorite in the race for the presidency of the group.
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, at least initially. The current statutes of the group should be modified to allow a dissociation of the functions of president and general manager. The executive hesitated for a long time on this point. Dissociated governance has become the rule in most companies in which the state is a shareholder, such as Engie or Renault. Replicate this model in a group…
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