Speaker Details
Jérôme Contamine
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Sanofi-Aventis
Jérôme Contamine is a Graduate of Ecole Polytechnique (X) and ENSAE, the national statistics and economics engineering school affiliated with the Ministry of Finance (1982). He graduated from the ENA -Ecole Nationale d'Administration. After 4 years at the Cour des Comptes , as a Senior State General Auditor, he joined Elf Aquitaine in 1988, as advisor to the Chief Financial Officer, and became Group Finance Director & Treasurer in 1991. He became the General Manager of Elf Petroleum Norway in 1995, after being named Deputy Vice President of Elf Upstream Division for Europe and the U.S. In 1999, he was member of the task force for integration with Total, in charge of the reorganization of the merged entity, TotalFinaElf, and became, in 2000, Vice President Europe and Central Asia, Upstream Division of Total. In the same year, he joined Veolia Environnement as CFO and Deputy General Manager. Mr Contamine was appointed Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of sanofi-aventis, effective March 16, 2009.
