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DANONE
REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 2015
Corporate Governance
6.2 Positions and responsibilities of the Directors and Nominees to the Board of Directors
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JEAN-MICHEL SEVERINO
Born September 6, 1957
Age: 58 years
French nationality
Business address:
9, rue Notre Dame des Victoires –
75002 Paris – France
Number of DANONE shares held as of December 31, 2015:
4,233
Independent Director
Attendance rate at Board of Directors' meetings as of
December 31, 2015:
100%
Principal responsibility:
Head of I&P SARL (Investisseurs
& Partenaires)
Personal background – experience and expertise:
Jean-Michel SEVERINO was born on September 6,
1957 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He is a graduate of the
École Nationale d'Administration, ESCP, IEP Paris and
holds a postgraduate degree (DEA) in economics and
a degree in law.
After four years working at the Inspection générale
des finances (French General Inspection of Finance)
(1984-1988), he was named technical advisor for eco-
nomic and financial affairs at the French Ministry of
Cooperation (1988-1989). He later became the Head of
that Ministry's Department of Economic and Financial
Affairs and then its Development Director. In all these
positions, he was particularly active inmacroeconomic
and financial relations, as well as the management of
political and humanitarian crises, in sub-SaharanAfrica.
In 1996, he was recruited by the World Bank as Director
for Central Europe at a time when this region was
marked by the end of the Balkans conflict and recon-
struction. He became the World Bank's Vice-President
in charge of East Asia from 1997 to 2001 and focused
on the management of the major macroeconomic and
financial crisis that shook these countries.
After a brief stint working once again for the French
government as Inspector General of Finance, he was
named Chief Executive Officer of the Agence Française
de Développement (AFD), where from 2001 to 2010 he
led the expansion efforts to cover the entire emerging
and developing world, notably in the Mediterranean
region, Asia and Latin America, while still maintaining
its strong roots in sub-Saharan Africa. He significantly
expanded the bank's development activities and ex-
tended its areas of responsibility to a large number of
new countries as well as contemporary global issues:
climate, biodiversity, poverty, growth, etc. He also
implemented a significant restructuring of the AFD
Positions and responsibilities as of December 31, 2015
(a)
Position
Company
Country
Director (term of of-
fice from Thursday,
April 28, 2011 to the end
of the Shareholders'
Meeting to approve
the 2016 financial
statements)
Chairman, member
and financial expert of
the Board of Directors'
Audit Committee
(since April 26, 2012)
Member of the Board
of Directors'
Strategy Committee
(since February 19,
2015)
DANONE SA
(b)
France
Chairman of the Board
of Directors
EBI SA (ECOBANK INTERNATIONAL)
France
Director Member
of the Audit Committee
ORANGE
(b)
France
Director
I&P GESTION
Mauritius
I&P DEVELOPEMENT
Mauritius
PHITRUST IMPACT INVESTORS SA
France
Chairman of the Board
of Directors
I&P AFRIQUE ENTREPRENEURS
Mauritius
Director Member of the
Investment Committee
ADENIA PARTNERS
Mauritius
Manager
ÉMERGENCES DÉVELOPPEMENT
France
I&P SARL (INVESTISSEURS ET PARTENAIRES)
France
Position
Associations/Foundations/Other
Country
Chairman of
the Executive
Committee
Director
CONVERGENCES
France
Chairman
CRITICAL ECOSYSTEM PARTNERSHIP FUND
(CEPF)
United States
Director
FONDATION SANOFI ESPOIR
France
FONDATION GRAMEEN CRÉDIT AGRICOLE
Luxembourg
Research Director and
Member of the Strategy
Steering Committee
FONDATION POUR LES ETUDES ET
RECHERCHES SUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT
INTERNATIONAL
France
Member
ACADÉMIE DES TECHNOLOGIES
(public-sector institution with administrative
activities)
France
(a) Offices shown in italics are not governed by Article L. 225-21 of the French commercial code
concerning multiple directorships.
(b) Listed company.