Graduate of the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC 1961) [International Business School]

Degree in Chartered Accounting.

Business experience:

1963 – 1970: Arthur Andersen

- Auditor, then Director of the Audit Department,

1970 – 1998: Compagnie Industrielle et Financière de Pompey [Pompey Industrial and Financial Company] which later became Strafor-Facom,

-Chairman and Managing Director (1981-1998)

1999: Schneider Electric

- Chairman and Managing Director from 1999 to May, 2006

- Chairman of the Supervisory Board since May, 2006

Other current positions:

-Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Vivendi

- Member of the Supervisory Board of the Groupe Norbert Dentressangle [Norbert Dentressangle Group]

- Director of CARMAT - Non-voting Member of the Board of Fimalac [a holding company established and managed by F. Marc Lacharriere]

- Chairman of the Board of the Centre Chirurgical Marie Lannelongue [Marie Lannelongue Surgical Center]

- Chairman of the Fondation pour le Droit Continental

- Chairman of the Institut Télémaque

- Director of the Fondation Entreprendre [Entrepreneurship Foundation]

- Chairman of the Conseil Consultatif des Campus d’Excellence au Commissariat Général à l’Investissement (Grand

Emprunt) [Campus Advisory Council for Excellence for the General Commission on Investment (Large Loans]

CARMAT)

- Vice-Chairman and treasurer of the Institut Montaigne [Montaigne Institute]

- Chairman for the French section of the Groupe de Haut Niveau Franco-Mexicain [Franco-Mexican High Level Group]

Other previous positions:

Author of 2006 report on the evaluation of consolidation scenarios impacting Euronext (a pan-European stock exchange)

From June 2005 to late 2008, conducted mission for Jean-Louis Borloo to promote apprenticeship

From 2007 to late 2009, mission for the promotion of the DP3 (Découverte professionnelle au Collège) [Student Internship Program]

Chairman of the French section of the Franco-Japanese Club from 2004 to 2009

Co-author of the report “Well-being and efficiency at work” in 2010

Henri Lachmann admires Charles de Gaulle. He likes reliable people, freedom, and solidarity. He is passionate about modern and contemporary art, jazz, skiing and rugby. He dislikes greed and the lust for power. His favorite quote is:"In life, we must choose between doing something and becoming somebody".