Céline Fornaro

Portrait of Céline Fornaro

Director representing the public sector

Céline Fornaro, born in 1976, has been Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the French State Investment Agency (Agence des participations de l’État) since October 1, 2023.

She began her career in 2000 as Marketing and Product Manager in aircraft sales at Embraer. In 2004, she began working for Merrill Lynch, before being promoted to Managing Director and head of the research team in Aerospace, Defense and Satellites in 2009. In 2016, Céline Fornaro joined UBS as Managing Director of equity research for the industrial sector, covering aerospace, equipment and new energy sources. In June 2022, she joined the Agence des participations de l’État as head of Finance.

This professional experience enabled her to acquire thorough knowledge of investment banking and the finance, equipment, aerospace, and transport sectors, with a global, medium- and long-term vision of these sectors.

Graduated from France’s National School of Civil Aviation (ENAC) in 1997, Céline Fornaro is also graduated from Cranfield University College of Aeronautics (United Kingdom). She is a French national.