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Baudouin Prot

French economist (born 1951)

Baudouin Prot (born 24 May 1951) is a French economist who was chairman of BNP Paribas' board of directors until December 2014. He is now a senior advisor at Boston Consulting Group and Partners Group.2

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Born May 24, 1951.1

Companies

Early life and education

  • 1974 to 1976École nationale d'administration3
  • Date not recordedHEC Paris3
  • Date not recordedLycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague3

Prot was born 24 May 1951. He graduated from HEC Paris in 1972, and from the École nationale d'administration in 1976.

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Career

Occupation: businessperson, entrepreneur, banker.8

  • 2011 to 2014President, BNP Paribas7
  • 2003 to 2011Chief executive officer, BNP Paribas7
  • Date not recordedWorked at Inspection générale des finances4
  • Date not recordedBoard member, Veolia5
  • Date not recordedBoard member, Kering6

Public sector

From 1974 to 1983 Prot was successively the Deputy Prefect of the Franche-Comté region of France, French General Inspector of Finance, and the deputy director of Energy and Raw Materials of the Ministry of Industry.

Private banking

Prot joined Banque Nationale de Paris in 1983. After BNP merged with Paribas in 2000, he was appointed CEO in 2003. Together with his mentor Michel Pébereau, he built BNP into one of the eurozone’s biggest banks with €1.8 trillion in assets and more than 185,000 employees in 75 countries. He stepped down in 2011 to become chairman of the bank's Board of Directors.

When BNP had to pay $8.9 billion fine to US regulators for sanctions violations – the bank had illegally processed more than $30 billion of transactions for groups in Sudan, Iran and Cuba between 2002 and 2012 –, Prot was replaced by Jean Lemierre.

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Consulting

In 2015, Baudouin Prot joined the Boston Consulting Group in Paris as a senior advisor.

Corporate boards

Veolia, Independent Member of the Board of Directors (since 2003)

Lafarge, Independent Member of the Board of Directors (2011-2015)

Accor, Member of the Board of Directors (2004-2009)

Pargesa Holding, Member of the Board of Directors (2004-2014)

Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, Member of the Board of Directors (1998-2005)

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Personal life

  • BornMay 24, 1951, 17th arrondissement of Paris9
  • CitizenshipFrance10

Awards

  • Date not recordedKnight of the Legion of Honour11
  • Date not recordedOfficer of the Legion of Honour11

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