Olivier Hérout

Olivier Hérout started his career as a legal expert in social law at Siemens AG in Munich. He joined ENGIE Group in 1990. His career led him to Strasbourg as HR Director of Elyo Nord Est, to Paris as Career Development Director of SUEZ, then to Brussels as Corporate Talent Development Manager at Tractebel and as HR Director of Fabricom.

In 2005, he joined GDF SUEZ's the Energy Services Business Line where he was Executive Vice President in charge of Human Resources, Health & Safety and Security.

In April 2015, he was entrusted with the steering of the social part of ENGIE's transformation project before being appointed Group Deputy Chief Human Resources Officer on January 1st, 2016.

Between October 2020 and January 2021, he assumed the responsibilities of Group CHRO ad interim.

In February 2021, he joined ENGIE's BRIGHT project to set up the autonomous entity gathering the Group's asset-light activities, now created under the name of Equans, of which he has become the CHRO. In January 2023, he has been appointed as Vice President of Equans in charge of Human Resources and Health & Safety.