A Graduate of the ESSEC business school and with a degree in Accounting and law from the Catholic University of Paris, Catherine Pourre began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she was a Partner from 1989 to 1999. She then worked for Cap Gemini as President in charge of the High Growth Middle Market and was a member of the French Group Executive Committee.
She subsequently joined the Unibail-Rodamco Group in 2002, where she served as Senior Executive Vice-president, Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, Organization, and Property Engineering. She then became General Manager of Core Businesses and a member of the Management Board from 2007 to 2013, and Director of U&R Management BV, a subsidiary of the Unibail-Rodamco Group, until 2015.
Current role