The AXA Group announces the appointment of Benoît Claveranne as Senior Vice-President European and Public Affairs, as of September 2, 2009. He replaces Jacques Maire who has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of AXA Hungary. He reports to Denis Duverne, member of AXA’s Management Board, Chief Financial Officer.
Benoît Claveranne was alternate Executive Director for France at the International Monetary Fund (IFM) since July 2007, after having been advisor of the French Executive Director of the IFM and of the World Bank. He previously had spent 4 years at the French Treasury, as Deputy-Head of the Africa-Caribbean-Pacific division and as portfolio manager of the Caisse des depots et consignations. Benoît Claveranne is a graduate of the Ecole nationale d’administration (French general public management school), the Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan and the Institut d’études politiques de Paris.