Victoire de Margerie

Victoire de Margerie is the Founder and Vice Chairman of the World Materials Forum and Executive Chairman/Reference Shareholder of Rondol Industrie, a deep technology startup that develops extrusion machinery for drug formulations and other high-tech applications. Prof. de Margerie has spent 35 years in the Materials Industry in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, first as an Executive and since 2003 as a Board Director (now Arkema and Eurazeo, previously Babcock, Italcementi, Morgan Ceramics, Outokumpu & Norsk Hydro). Prof. de Margerie was elected an Academician at the National Academy of Technologies of France in 2019 and she joined the board of Mines ParisTech in 2021. She graduated from HEC Paris and Sciences Po Paris and held a Ph.D. in Management from Université de Paris 2.