Our GOVERNANCE

Financi’Elles has adopted a structured organisation: a non-profit association, led by an Executive Committee whose members are elected by a Board of Directors.

The work of Financi’Elles is organised into themed commissions, led by members of the Executive Committee, each with its own area of responsibilities.

Under the patronage of Christine Lagarde, the Honorary Committee features four iconic women who are committed to promoting gender diversity alongside Financi’Elles: Marie-Claire Capobianco, Anne Guillaumat de Blignières, Arielle Malard de Rothschild and Nathalie Rachou. Financi’Elles also works with ambassadors and a committee of partners offering their skills and expertise.

CHRISTINE LAGARDE

Sponsor of Financi’Elles

“I think that Financi’Elles will have an instrumental role in transforming financial professions, and I hope that together we succeed in improving the position of women in this sector; women engaged in professional life, women who believe in a number of fundamental values.”

Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund

HONORARY MEMBERS

Marie-Claire Capobianco
Director of the French Networks of BNP Paribas

Anne Guillaumat de Blignières
Mediator of the Caisse des Dépôts Group

The four honorary members, Marie-Claire Capobianco, Arielle Malard de Rothschild, Nathalie Rachou, and Anne Guillaumat de Blignières help support the work of Financi’Elles.

More about Marie-Claire

Marie-Claire Capobianco has been a member of the BNP Paribas Executive Committee since January 2012, and Director of Growth Development and Corporate Coverage since January 2019.

Marie-Claire Capobianco began her career in the Corporate Clients department at BNP in Marseille in 1977. She then spent four years at the bank’s ‘Inspection Générale’ (Group Internal Audit) as an Auditor, then Chief Auditor, before moving to take charge of the Individual and Self-Employed Professional Clients department in Nantes. She subsequently became Head of the Var branch group, and then the Essonne branch group.

In November 2002, she was appointed Head of Private Banking for the whole of France. In 2007, following the BNP Paribas Group’s acquisition of BNL, Ms Capobianco took on a governance role for the Private Banking business in Italy.

In November 2008, when the BNP Paribas Retail Banking division was being set up, she was given the task of managing the development of Private Banking in all the countries where the Group has a domestic branch network.

In 2012, Marie-Claire Capobianco was appointed Head of BNP Paribas French Retail Banking, becoming a member of the BNP Paribas Group Executive Committee.

She became Director of Growth Development and Corporate Coverage on 1 January 2019 with the mission to strengthen the bank’s capacity to accelerate the growth of companies in France.

Marie-Claire Capobianco also supports a number of projects that promote entrepreneurship and innovation. She is for instance co-author of Entrepreneuriat féminin, mode d’emploi (A guide to female entrepreneurship).

– Chairperson of the French Institute for Customer Relations (INRC)

– Co-chair of the MEDEF’s Economy, Competitiveness and Finance commission and Chair of its committee Financing

– Member of the High Commission of Corporate Governance

– Member of the ADIE Board of Directors

– Board member of Paris Ile-de-France Capitale économique

– Knight of the National Order of Merit

More about Anne

Anne Guillaumat de Blignières is the Mediator of the Caisse des Dépôts Group, after being Senior advisor to the Board as Head of promoting Gender Equity and Women’s empowerment. She has previously been in charge of the Institutional relations Division and Senior executive career Management.
She has held several governance positions since the beginning of her career : President of the board of Tudor France (Norwegian Shipping company), member of the board of Nacco SA (railcar lessor in Europe), and of the board of 15.Montaigne (Théâtre des Champs Elysées). She was appointed to the state’s Economic, Social and Environmental Council during 5 years.
Anne is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and of the Order of Merit.
Caisse des Dépôts is a long term investor serving France’s public interest and economic development. Widely recognised for its expertise in managing its areas of competence, the group focuses its efforts on four major areas of transition strategically vital to France’s long-term development : territorial, ecology and energy, digital, demographic and social.

More about Arielle

Arielle Malard de Rothschild is Managing Director, and member of the Board of Directors of Rothschild & Co, where she founded the Emerging Markets department in Paris in 1999.

She earned a PhD in International Economics from the Paris Institute of Political Studies. Between 1989 and 1999, while at Lazard Frères & Cie, she was an investment banker on the foreign government advisory team and was subsequently involved in mergers and acquisitions in emerging countries. She has served as a member of the Board of Directors and a member of the Appointments and Remuneration Committee of Imerys from 2011 to 2017.

She his also member of the Board of Directors of the Lucien Barrière Group since 2010, of the Board of Directors and a member of the Audit and Appointments Committee of Electrica SA (a company listed on the LSE and BVB) since 2014.

Arielle Malard de Rothschild has always been committed to community life. Thus, she is Chair of CARE France since 2007, and member of the Supervisory Board and Treasurer of CARE International since 2004. She is also Director of the Rothschild Foundation since 1996.

Arielle Malard de Rothschild is the author of a book entitled “Co-financements Banque Mondiale – Banques Commerciales” (University Press of France, 1986) and co-author of “Et la confiance, bordel?” (Ed. Eyrolles, 2014).

Arielle Malard de Rothschild is a Knight of the Legion of Honour.

More about Nathalie

A 1978 graduate of HEC, she joined Banque Indosuez where she held various positions in Capital Markets before creating the MATIF subsidiary, Carr Futures International. She became Corporate Secretary in 1991 and then returned to Markets in 1996 to take over the Currency and Options global product range. In 1999, she founded Topiary Finance, a London-based asset management company, which she has led ever since. She serves as a director and member of the Audit and Risk Committee for Societe Generale (since 2008), Veolia (since 2012), and Altran (since 2012). She has served as Foreign Trade Advisor for France since 2001.