Year of first appointment and year in which current mandate will expire: 2020–2028

Biography
A German national, Annette Messemer holds a Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Bonn (Germany), a Master in International Economics from the Fletcher School at Tufts University (US) and a degree from SciencesPo Paris. She began her career in investment banking at JP Morgan in New York in 1994 and subsequently worked in Frankfurt and London. In 2006, she left JP Morgan as Senior Banker to join Merrill Lynch as member of the German subsidiary’s Executive Committee. In 2010, she was appointed to the Supervisory Board of WestLB by the German Ministry of Finance. From 2013 to 2018, she joined Commerzbank, where she was a member of the Group’s Executive Committee and Head of the Corporate and Institutional Clients department.

Other mandates held in French listed companies
Director: Savencia SA (since 2020); Imerys SA (since 2020); Vinci SA (since 2023).

Other offices and positions held in other companies in the past five years
Director: EssilorLuxottica SA (from 2018 to 2021).
Member of the Supervisory Board: Babbel AG (Germany) (from 2021 to 2024).