Catherine Guillouard

Catherine Guillouard is a graduate of the Institute of Political Studies of Paris and the École Nationale d’Administration (1991/93), and holds a PhD of European laws (Panthéon-Sorbonne). She began her career in 1993 at the Ministry of Economy in the French Treasury, working for the department in charge of the Africa – CFA zone and later in the Banking Affairs Department. She joined Air France in 1997 as IPO Senior Project Manager. She was subsequently appointed Deputy Vice-President Finance Controlling in 1999, Senior Vice-President of Flight Operations in 2001, Senior Vice-President of Human Resources in 2003 and Chief Financial Officer in December 2005. In September 2007, she joined Eutelsat as Chief Financial Officer and member of the Group Executive Committee. Catherine Guillouard joined Rexel in April 2013 as Chief Financial Officer and between May 2014 and February 2017 she was Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Rexel. Between August 2017 and September 2022, she was Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of RATP Group, one of the leading urban transportation operators in the world, where she launched a major investment and transformation plan and implemented the public transportation decarbonation plan. She was appointed as Chairwoman of Ingenico, a leading electronic payment services company, in October 2022.