Luc Rémont will be appointed head of EDF – BFM Business

BFM BUSINESS INFO. The leader of Schneider Electric will become general manager of the public company. He will be in duet with a president. It is now done. It is Luc Rémont who will become head of EDF. The leader of Schneider Electric is the candidate who will be chosen by the government and the President of the Republic to lead the electrician. According to several sources familiar with the matter, “there is no more suspense, there is only him in the race”. He was to be received at the end of the week at the Elysée. The formalization of his appointment is imminent. The other candidates have been warned that they will not be chosen. These include Marianne Laigneau, the boss of Enedis, and Philippe Knoche, that of Orano. A general manager and a president According to our information, it is also recorded that Luc Rémont will be accompanied by a president to form a two-headed governance. Or rather a president since the government wants parity. Two women were in the running: Laurence Parisot and Marianne Laigneau. The former president of Medef was also an administrator of EDF for six years, between 2015 and 2021. She would however have assured in private that she will not be chosen. Marianne Laigneau could suddenly be selected for the non-executive presidency. In addition to the gender parity which would thus be respected, this duo would also allow the balance between an external leader, Luc Rémont, and one of the intern, Marianne Laigneau. Enedis being the electricity distributor owned by EDF. Luc Rémont’s candidacy came late in the search process for Jean-Bernard Levy’s successor. His name was cited at the end of August, as revealed by BFM Business. Privatization and soon renationalization of EDF Luc Rémont’s career ticks the boxes for the three major sectors of the economy: public, finance and industry. He was deputy director in the Cabinet of Finance Ministers from 2002 to 2007. He had notably dealt with the privatization of EDF and had crossed paths with the director of the Prime Minister’s cabinet, Dominique de Villepin: the current Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire. He will thus have to close the loop since he will now be in charge of the renationalisation of EDF. He was then boss of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in France, taking over from Marc Pandraud, just after the 2008 financial crisis and the takeover from Merrill Lynch by Bank of America. It was in 2014 that he joined Schneider Electric, where he now manages international operations alongside the CEO, Jean-Pascal Tricoire. the State Shareholding Agency. He followed public transport companies at the “APE” – such as SNCF and RATP, with a certain Alexis Kohler, now secretary general of Emmanuel Macron’s Elysée since 2017. Matthieu Pechberty Journalist BFM Business