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Director
Paul Desmarais Jr. (1954) was
appointed to the Lafarge Board of Directors in 2008.
Born in Sudbury, Ontario,
Canada (1954), Paul Desmarais, Jr. studied at McGill University where he
obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He then graduated from the European
Institute of Business (I.N.S.E.A.D.) in Fontainebleau, France, with a Master's
degree in Business Administration (M.B.A.).
In 1996, he is named Chairman
and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Power Corporation of Canada (P.C.C.) and
Chairman of the Executive Committee of Power Financial Corporation (P.F.C.). Prior
to joining P.C.C. in 1981, he was with S.G. Warburg & Co. in London,
England, and with Standard Brands Incorporated in New York. He was President
and Chief Operating Officer of P.F.C. from 1986 to 1989, and was Chairman from
1990 to 2005.
His term of office expires at
the General Meeting approving financial statements for the financial year ended
2011.
He is a Director and member
of the Executive Committee of many Power group companies in North America. He
is also Executive Director and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Pargesa Holding
S.A. (Switzerland) and a
Director of Groupe Bruxelles
Lambert (Belgium), Total S.A. and Suez (France).
Mr. Desmarais is Chairman of
the Board of Governors of The International Economic Forum of the Americas,
Founder and Chairman of the International Advisory Committee of "École des Hautes Études
Commerciales" (H.E.C.) Montreal, and Founder and Member of the
International Advisory Board of the McGill University Faculty of Management
(Canada).
He is a member of the
International Council and a Director of the European Institute of Business
Administration (I.N.S.E.A.D.)
and Global Advisor for Merrill Lynch (New York).
Mr Desmarais is a member of
the Economic Consultative Council directed by the minister Flaherty (Canada),
member of the Board of the Trudeau Foundation, Vice- Chairman of the Board and
member of the Executive Committee of the CCCE ("Conseil Canadien des Chefs d'Entreprise"). He is also member of the Honorary Council of the Peres Center for peace,
member of the "National Strategy Concil" of the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute,
member of the BAC and Co-President of the national campaign for the
preservation of nature in Canada.
Mr
Desmarais holds 6,715 Lafarge shares. |
