Pierre Louette

Pierre Louette is Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Group General Secretary, in charge of France Carriers Division, Group Sourcing and Supply Chain, as well as the Group’s operational efficiency program Chrysalid.

48, is a law graduate from IEP and ENA, is a France’s Court of Audit Senior Auditor and has been awarded the Légion d’honneur.
   
Prime Minister’s advisor for Media, youth and sports from 1993 to 1995, he is particularly involved during this period in the development of new communication networks.

He then became France Television’s General Secretary and Director of Communications.
From 1996, he focused on developing the Internet in France, in particular as founder and CEO of Connectworld, a leading web agency, then as Executive VP of Europatweb, Bernard Arnault’s investment fund in the Internet.
Pierre Louette was managing director of Agence France-Presse from 2003 to 2005, then its chairman and CEO from 2005 to 2010.
He represents France Telecom Orange Group on the boards of TPSA (Poland) and Dailymotion.
Since April 2011, he is member of the French National Digital Council.
In October 2011, he was appointed Chairman of Buyin, the procurement joint venture created by France Telecom – Orange and Deutsche Telekom.
From 2011, November 1st, Pierre Louette has been appointed Group's Deputy Chief Executive Officer.

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