Klein
- Chief Executive Officer of Lazard Frères Banque
- Independent Director
- Member of the Audit and Internal Control Committee and of the Risk Committee
Year of first appointment and year in which current mandate will expire: 2025–2029
Biography
A French national, Olivier Klein is graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne in 1978. He also graduated from the Ecole Nationale de Statistiques et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE) in 1980 and from HEC (graduate studies in finance) in 1985. Then he began his career at BFCE in 1985 and held the positions of Director of the Consulting Department in Foreign Exchange Risk and Interest Rate Risk, then Director of BFCE's Investment Banking arm and finally Regional Director of its corporate bank. He joined the Caisse d'Epargne Group in 1998. From 2000 to 2007, he was Chairman of the Management Board of Caisse d'Épargne Île-de-France Ouest and from 2007 to 2009, he was Chairman of the Management Board of Caisse d'Épargne Rhône-Alpes. In January 2010, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer in charge of commercial banking and insurance at Groupe BPCE, a position he held until September 2012. From October 2012 to May 2023, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the BRED Group. From 2019 to May 2023, he was a member of BPCE's Supervisory Board and its Risk Committee. Since September 2023, he holds the position of Chief Executive Officer of Lazard Frères Banque SA and Managing Partner. Since 1986, he has been a professor at HEC in financial macroeconomics and monetary policy. Since 2018, he has been a director of Rexécode.
Other mandates held in French unlisted companies
Chief Executive Officer: Lazard Frères Banque (since 2023).
Other offices and positions held in other companies in the past five years
Chief Executive Officer: BRED Group (from 2012 to 2023).
Director: Compagnie financière BRED SA (from 2016 to 2023), Bred Banque Internationale de Commerce SA (from 2016 to 2024), Promepar Asset Management SA (from 2017 to 2023), BRED Gestion SA (from 2017 to 2024), Unigestion Asset Management SA (from 2015 to May 2025).
Member of the Supervisory Board: PREPAR-VIE SA (de 2016 to 2023), BPCE (from 2019 to 2023).
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