Our GOVERNANCE

Clara Gaymard is President of RAISE Endowment Fund.
She has been President and CEO of GE France and Vice-President of GE International since September 2006.
Before joining GE, Clara was Ambassador for International Investment and director of the Invest in France Agency (AFII).
Clara began her career in 1982 at the Paris Town Hall in the office of the mayor, Jacques Chirac, and then moved on to the International Relations Division. She served as auditor and counsellor at the Cour des Comptes (Court of Auditors) from 1986 to 1990 and as a commercial advisor at the French Trade Office in Cairo from 1991 to 1993. Returning to Paris, she was responsible for commercial relations with the EU at the Ministry of Economy. In 1995 she was named director of the office of Colette Codaccioni, Minister of Solidarity between Generations. She was then appointed head of the SME support and regional initiatives department, before going on to coordinate the “SME Mission” until 2003 at the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Clara also writes novels and non-fiction.
A former student at ENA, Clara is a graduate of IEP Paris and holds a diploma in Law and History.
Clara is an Officer of the National Merit Order and Knight of the Legion of Honour. She is also a Commendatore of the Italian Republic Merit Order.

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.

Arielle Malard de Rothschild is Managing Director of Rothschild & Co and Vice Chairman of Rothschild Group for Eastern Europe, 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 then involved in mergers and acquisitions in emerging countries.

She has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Lucien Barrière Group since 2010, as a member of the Board of Directors and a member of the Appointments and Remuneration Committee of Imerys since 2011, as a member of the Board of Directors and a member of the Audit and Appointments Committee of Electrica SA (a company listed on the LSE) since 2014, and as a member of the Board of Directors of Rothschild & Co since 2015.

Arielle Malard de Rothschild has also been Chair of CARE France since 2007 and Director of CARE International since 2004. She has also served as 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.

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.