Chairman of the Board of Directors
Year of first appointment / Current mandate 2018 / 2022-2026
Independent director Chairman of the board of directors of Dexia Chairman of the board of directors of Dexia Crédit Local
Other mandates and functions Director of Trust BK (France), Director and chairman of the committee monitoring nuclear commitments of EDF (France)
Biography Gilles Denoyel is a graduate of the Ecole des Mines in Paris, the Institut d'études politiques (IEP) in Paris, and the Ecole nationale d’administration (ENA). He was appointed Inspector of Finance at the Ministry of the Economy and Finance in 1981 before, in 1985, joining the Directorate of the Treasury as Mission Head and then as Secretary General (1987) to the CIRI, Head of the Credit Insurance Office, Head of the Financial Markets Office (1989-92), Deputy Director of Insurance (1992-94), and Deputy Director of Holdings (1994-96). He then joined the CCF group in 1996 as Director Finance, Secretary General in charge of Strategy and Operations in 1998, then Deputy Director General Finance in 2000 and participated in the link-up with the British group HSBC, where he continued his career as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of HSBC France from 2004. In that role, he was first in charge of central and financial functions. In 2006, he took charge of the asset management business line, insurance activities and central non-financial functions. From 2007, he supervised all the risk and control functions and relations with the supervisory authorities. In 2015, he was appointed International President Institutional Relations of the HSBC group for Europe. Since his retirement from the HSBC group, in June 2016, he has been performing advice missions in the financial sector and has been Senior Advisor at Bain Consulting. He was chairman of the group of banks under foreign control in France from 2006 until 2016, and Treasurer of the French Banking Association from 2004 until 2016. Since May 2019 he has been director and chairman of the nuclear commitments committee of EDF. Principal fields of expertise Finance and credit institutions, financial risk management, leadership and management of institutions.
Director
Year of first appointment / Current mandate 2020 / 2020-2024
Executive director Director and Chairman of the Management Board of Dexia Director and Chairman of he Management Board of Dexia Crédit Local
Other mandates and functions Chairman of the Board of Directors of Namur Invest
Biography Pierre Crevits is holder of Master’s Degree in Economics and Social Sciences, extended by four years as an assistant at the University of Namur. He spent the rest of his career to date at the National Bank of Belgium. He held various positions there, including head of macroeconomic statistics, before taking over as head of the Bank's General Secretariat, a position he has held to this day. From 2010 to 2014 he was seconded as Chief of Staff in the Belgian federal government. He also chaired the Scientific Committee on Government Accounts at the Institute of National Accounts from 2016 to 2020 and still chairs the Board of Directors of the Namur Invest Group. Principal fields of expertise Economics, banking supervision and banking regulation, strategy, HR management, crisis management.
Year of first appointment / Current mandate 2018 / 2018-2022
Executive director Director and Member of the management board as Chief Risk Officer of Dexia Director and Chief Risk Officer, Deputy Executive Officer of Dexia Crédit Local
Biography Giovanni Albanese Guidi has a degree in electrical engineering from the University of La Sapienza (Italy), a Master of Science and a third cycle Degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California (USA), as well as an MBA from the Bocconi University (Italy). After working for more than 18 years in different firms of consultants (McKinsey & Company, Booz Allen and Hamilton and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants), he joined the Unicredit group in 2006, where in particular he was head of risks for Italy, head of the group’s credit risk and head of the group's internal validation department. In September 2018, he was appointed Chief Risk Officer of the Dexia Group and a member of the Management Board of Dexia.
Year of first appointment / Current mandate 2023 / 2023-2027
Non-executive director Director of Dexia and Dexia Crédit Local
Main function Secretary General of the Ministries of the Economy and Finance
Biography Anne Blondy-Touret, a former student of the Ecole nationale d'administration (Romain Gary academic year), is a graduate of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and the College of Europe in Bruges (Aristotle academic year). After a career dedicated to the management of economic policies, she joined the General Secretariat of the Ministries of the Economy and Finance in January 2023. The General Secretariat coordinates Ministry cross-cutting policies, supports the transformation, manages the support functions and ensures social dialogue. She has spent nearly 20 years in the service of the State, in positions of great responsibility, notably in the Treasury's General Directorate, at Agence France Trésor, at the World Bank in Washington and as head of the Finance department at the French Permanent Representation to the European Union. She was assistant to the head of the office for public aid and development at the French Treasury from 2005 to 2007, and then became head of the Treasury department at the Agence France Trésor for two years. She then joined the World Bank where she was Deputy Director for France from 2010 to 2012 before returning to the Treasury's General Directorate where she was in charge of the office of insurance markets and products and then the sub-directorate of bilateral economic relations. From 2017 to 2020, she was head of the finance department of the Permanent Representation of France to the European Union in Brussels before taking up the post of head of the macroeconomic policies and European affairs department at the Treasury Directorate-General until 1 January 2023. She was a director of the European Investment Bank from 2020 to 2022 and coordinated the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2022 for the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty.
Principal fields of expertise financial markets, finance, European questions, direction and management of institutions, financial risk management, crisis management.
Year of first appointment / Current mandate 2012 / 2021-2025
Other mandates and functions Independent Director of United Pensions OFP
Biography Bart Bronselaer holds a degree in industrial engineering (Group T – Leuven), as well as a master’s degree in information sciences (VUB) and a master’s degree in business administration (MBA – U.C. Louvain). The major part of his career (1993-2003) was spent with Merrill Lynch International in London, where he held various positions, the last chronologically as Head of Debt Capital Markets for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. There he had the task of structuring and selling financial solutions to various clients, such as financial institutions, industrial companies and public bodies. In 2003, he became an independent expert in financial services. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Royal Park Investments until 31 December 2013. From November 2019 till MAy 2020, he has been Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Management Board ad interim of Dexia and director and Chief Executive Officer ad interim of Dexia Crédit Local.
Principal fields of expertise Financial markets, finance, structured finance, derivatives, strategy.
Main function General Administrator of the Belgian Federal Public Service Finance (FPS Finance)
Other mandates and functions Chairman of the Protection Fund for Financial Instruments, Member of the Commission for Nuclear Reserves
Biography Alexandre De Geest is a graduate in law from the Catholic University of Louvain and the Free University of Brussels. He has been a director of numerous companies including Gazelec (2004-2005) and the Silver Fund since 2003. He was an Adviser to the Cabinet of the Federal Minister of Finance from 2000, then an Adviser to the Cabinet of the Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2011. He has been director of FPS Finance since 2012 and CEO since 2016. Principal fields of expertise Financial markets, finance, taxation.
Year of first appointment / Current mandate 2013 / 2021-2025
Main function Director of the Cabinet of the Chairman and CEO of the Covea Group
Biography Thierry Francq is a graduate of Ecole polytechnique and Ecole nationale de statistiques et d’administration économique (ENSAE). He began his career in 1988 in the direction de la Prévision (Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry), as Deputy Head of the Foreign Office and then of the Financial Transactions Office. In 1992, he joined the General Directorate of the Treasury where he was Deputy Head of the Housing Financing Office and, as of 1995, Head of the Office in charge of French policy regarding the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the international financial system and the preparation of the G7 summits. From 2000 to 2002, he held the position of Deputy Head in charge of the regulation of insurance companies, products and markets and then, from 2002 to 2004, Deputy Head of the State holding department before being appointed Head of Economy Financing at the French Treasury. In March 2009, he was appointed Secretary General of the Financial Markets Authority (AMF). From December 2012 to September 2013, he was executive adviser to the CEO of the French Treasury. He was Deputy General Auditor for Investment from October 2013 until September 2018. Since September 2018 he has been Director of the Cabinet of the Chairman and CEO of the Covea Group.
Principal fields of expertise Economics, financial regulation and administration.
Year of first appointment / Current mandate 2016/2021-2025
Executive director Director and Member of the management board as Chief Financial Officer of Dexia Director and Chief Financial Officer, Deputy Executive Officer of Dexia Crédit Local
Biography Véronique Hugues has a double Master’s degree in finance from the University of Paris IX Dauphine and the University Johan Wolfgang Goethe in Frankfurt and a master DESS 203, market finance from the University of Paris IX Dauphine. After beginning her career with Deutsche Bank in Paris, in the ALM department, she joined the Dexia Group in 2001 as Head of Long-Term Funding. She took charge of Financial Communication in 2009 and, in 2013, became Head of Financial Management and director of Dexia Kommunalbank Deutschland and Dexia Sabadell. From 2014 to 2016, she was Deputy CFO of Dexia and a member the Group Committee. With this mandate, she directed various transversal projects within the Finance activity line. Since June 2016 she has been an executive director of Dexia, Chief Financial Officer and member of the Management Board of Dexia and Director and Executive Vice President of Dexia Crédit Local.Principal fields of expertise Finance, financial markets, financial communication, change management and transformation processes
Year of first appointment / Current mandate 2019 / 2019-2023
Independent director Director of Dexia and Dexia Crédit Local
Other mandates and functions Executive director of TJP Capital, Director of Greenomy, Director of Bank Degroof Petercam and its affiliate DPAM
Biography Tamar Joulia-Paris is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique in Mons (Belgium), the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie et de Prospection Minière in Nancy (France) and the Solvay Business School in Brussels (Belgium). After ten years in the construction sector and in manufacturing industry, mainly in developing countries, she joined the banking sector in 1992 at Banque Bruxelles Lambert (later ING Belgium) where she was in charge of credit risk management. She subsequently held senior management positions at ING Group in Amsterdam, where she was in charge of the group-wide credit portfolio and credit markets during the financial crisis of 2008, and led teams in Europe, the US and Asia. In addition to her management functions, Tamar Joulia-Paris is also a member of the Management Council of ING Group. After more than 25 years in the banking sector, she set up her own consulting and training company specialising in risk management in the financial sector, the impact of prudential regulations and balance sheet and portfolio optimisation. She is also a visiting professor at the Facultés Universitaires de Saint-Louis (UCL) where she has been teaching risk management since 2004.
Principal fields of expertise Financial company management, risk management, international regulations, crisis management, finance, audit and HR
Year of first appointment / Current mandate 2016 / 2021-2025
Main function Global Head of Strategy - Corporate Services at Sodexo
Other mandates and functions Director of Cofiroute and of AFS (VInce Autoroutes Group)
Biography Alexandra Serizay is a graduate of the ESSEC. She began her career in 1997 as internal auditor with France Télécom Transpac, and then joined Deutsche Bank in London in 1999 as Associate in M&A. In 2004, she joined Bain in Paris and became Manager in 2007. In 2011, she joined HSBC France, first of all as a member of the Executive Committee of HSBC France, responsible for Strategy, and then in 2013 she became Secretary General of the Executive Committee of RBWM (Retail Banking & Wealth Management) and director in charge of customer development and offers in 2016. She also assumed a mandate within the boards of HSBC REIM France (Real Estate Investment Managers), HSBC SFH France (HSBC covered pool) and HSBC Factoring France. In September 2017 she left the HSBC Group to become Global Head of Strategy - Corporate Services at Sodexo.
Principal fields of expertise Audit and finance, mergers and acquisitions, strategy, digital transformation, risk management.
Year of first appointment / Current mandate 2016 / 2016-2020
Main function Professor of finance law and Dean of the Faculty of Law and Criminology at the University of Ghent
Biography Michel Tison, Doctor of Law, has been, since 1998, Associate Professor, and then, since 2008, Professor at the University of Ghent. He is the author or co-author of many publications regarding banking and financial law. From 2001 to 2014, he was an independent Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Aphilion Q2 (UCITS) and from 2005 to 2014, a member of the Audit Committee of the hospital of the University of Ghent. Since 2005, he has been an assessor for the “legislation” department of the Council of State. Principal fields of expertise Banking and finance law, audit.
Year of first appointment / Current mandate 2008 / 2021-2025
Main function Chief Executive Officer and member of the Strategy Committee of the Federal Holding and Investment
Other mandates and functions Director of Certi-Fed SA, Capricorn ICT Fund, Capricorn Sustainable Chemistry Fund, Sinnolabs Hong Kong Ltd, Euroports Group BV
Biography Koen Van Loo is graduate in applied economics. After gaining a degree in taxation, he began his career as Deputy Adviser to the Central Economic Council. In September 1999, he joined the Office of the Belgian Minister of Finance as an expert. In November 2000, he was appointed Adviser to the Cabinet and was then Head of the Cabinet from May 2003 until November 2006. He was then appointed Chief Executive Officer and a Member of the Strategy Committee of the Federal Holding and Investment Company Principal fields of expertise Financial analysis, accounting, taxation and strategy
Observer
Year of first appointment / Current mandate 2017 / 2020-2024
Observer / Non-executive director Observer of Dexia Director of Dexia Crédit Local
Biography The holder of a Master’s Degree in Mathematics from the University of Lille 1, Aline Bec has considerable experience acquired in major banking groups in France, such as BPCE, Natixis, Crédit Agricole, Crédit Lyonnais and the BFCE, where she held the posts of Head of IT Systems, Operations, Organisation of Real Estate and Purchasing. She was involved in numerous major projects and digital transformation programmes. Before joining the Dexia Group in October 2016, from 2012 she was with BPCE, where she held the post of Deputy Director General and was a member of the Executive Committee, responsible for IT Systems, Purchasing, Logistic Real Estate and Major Programmes. Principal fields of expertise Finance, audit and accountancy, protection from fraude, operational risk, risk management, human ressources.
Year of first appointment / Current mandate 2017 / 2021-2025
Main function Membre du Management Board of the Advance Ruling Service of the Belgian Tax Administration.
Other mandates and functions Chairman of the board of directors of FIF-FSI
Biography The holder of a triple Degree in Law (Fiscal, European and Private Property) from the Free University of Brussels, Véronique Tai first of all held the post of Corporate Finance Adviser at Coopers&Lybrand. In 1996 she joined SPF Finances, where in particular she made her name as Expert Adviser to the Cabinet of the Minister Finance in the Financial Markets Unit, before becoming an active member of the Management Board of the Advance Ruling Service of the Belgian Tax Administration. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Rekode, fund manager at Inclusio and Chairman of the Board of Directors of FIF-FSI. At the same time, she lectures for the Master’s Degree in Tax Law at the Free University of Brussels. Principal fields of expertise Tax, financial markets, accounting standards, corporate finance