Independent director
Anne-Gabrielle Heilbronner, born in 1969, is Secretary General of Publicis Groupe. She is in charge of human resources, procurement, legal affairs, compliance and governance, insurance and the internal audit and control functions and risk management. As a member of the Management Board, she has input into all strategic decisions regarding the Group’s transformation.
She began her career as a Financial Inspector before joining the Treasury Department as Deputy Manager of Social Housing Financing. She worked at Euris from 2000 to 2004 as Head of Corporate Finance in charge of all financial operations for Euris and Casino. Having contributed to EDF’s initial public offering strategy, she then held the positions of Chief of Staff (2004-2005) and Special Adviser (2005-2007) respectively with the French Secretary of State for the Reform of State and then with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Director of Internal Audit and Risk Management at SNCF (2007-2010), where she developed and strengthened the role of the audit and compliance functions (ethics, fraud prevention, etc.), she then became Senior Banker and Managing Director at Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking, in charge of a portfolio of listed companies.
She joined Publicis Groupe in 2012. Anne-Gabrielle Heilbronner is a Financial Inspector, an alumna of the École Nationale d’Administration (ENA), and a graduate of ESCP-Europe and of the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris. She also holds a master’s degree in Public Law and a postgraduate diploma in Tax Law and Public Finance.
Since November 2024, Anne-Gabrielle Heilbronner has been President of the Aspen Institute in France. She is a Knight (Chevalier) of the French Legion of Honor. She is a French national.
