WBernard Attali is a French business executive, political advisor and one-time novelist. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Air France from 1988 to 1993. He is a senior advisor to TPG Capital and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
WJacques Biot is a French engineer, businessman, lobbyist for pharmaceutical companies and academic administrator. He serves as the president of the École Polytechnique between 2013 and 2018.
WJules Charles-Roux was a French businessman and politician. He served as the vice president of the Suez Canal Company. He served as a corporate director of shipping companies in the Antilles, West Africa and French Indochina. He was a supporter of the French colonial empire.
WLaurence Danon Arnaud is a French businesswoman. She currently serves as chairman of her family office Primerose SAS.
WYvon Gattaz is a French businessman. He is the co-founder of Radiall, an electronics manufacturer. He was President of the Conseil national du patronat français, the main pro-business organization in France, from 1981 to 1986. He has authored many books about free enterprise.
WÉric Janvier is a French businessman.
WAnne Lauvergeon is a French businesswoman who served as CEO of Areva from 2001 until 2011. According to The Wall Street Journal, she is known internationally as one of the most prominent defenders of nuclear power.
WJean-Baptiste Pastré was a French banker and arms-dealer from Marseille. A merchant banker in Egypt, he founded the Anglo-Egyptian Bank in 1862. He also served on the City Council of Marseille.
WOlivier Pastré is a French banker and economist. He serves as Chairman of IM Bank and as a professor of economics at Paris 8 University.
WMuriel Pénicaud is a former French business executive who has been serving as her country's ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) since 2020. She previously served as the Minister of Labour in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from 17 May 2017 to 6 July 2020. In the private sector, she was the Executive Vice President in charge of Human Resources at Dassault Systèmes from 2002 to 2008, and at Groupe Danone from 2008 to 2014.
WThierry Peugeot is a French heir and business executive.
WÉric Pichet is a French economist and a post-graduate professor at KEDGE Business School. His main areas of expertise include market finance, monetary economics, fiscal economics, corporate governance and fiscal governance.
WPierre Pringuet is a French businessman. He was the chief executive officer of Pernod-Ricard from 2008 to 2015. He serves as its vice president, as well as the president of the French Association of Private Enterprises (AFEP).
WBaron Éric Alain Robert David de Rothschild is a French banker.
WCharles Prosper Eugène Schneider, also known as Eugène Schneider II, was a French industrialist, head of Schneider-Creusot and other works in France, politician and inventor. In 1923, he was awarded the John Fritz Medal.