Didier Lombard, Chairman

Chairman of strategy Committee

 

Appointed as the France Telecom Group’s Chairman on February 27, 2005* (term ending: 2011**), he is also a director at Thomson and Thales and a member of the supervisory board at Radiall and ST Microelectronics.

Didier Lombard joined the Group in 2003 as Senior Executive Vice President, in charge of Technologies, Strategic Partnerships and New Usages for France Telecom.

Between 1988 and 2003, he worked with the French ministry for research and technology and the ministry for the economy, finance and industry, and was then founding chairman of the French agency for international investment.

 

He began his career in 1967 at France Telecom’s CNET (currently Research and Development Division), where he worked on developing new products for France Telecom on satellites, electronic components and wireless systems.

* Term of office renewed at the General Meeting on April 22, 2005
** Term of office ends at Ordinary General Meeting convened to approve the financial statements for 2010