Francois Benaroya

Deputy Chairman

Mr Francois Benaroya  graduated from the École Polytechnique and the École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique in Paris. He also holds a Master's degree in Economics from Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Additionally, he is a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

He has been associated to the banking sector since the beginning of his over thirty-year career, which started in 1994 when he served as Deputy Director of the Emerging Markets Department at the French Ministry of Finance. From 1997 to 1999, he was an economic advisor for Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States at the French Embassy in Moscow. From 1999 to 2001, he worked as Director of the International Trade Analysis Department at the French Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Industry, and later as Deputy Director of the Minister's Cabinet for European Affairs.

Since 2004, when he became deputy director of Corporate Development, his career has been linked with the BNP Paribas Group. From 2007 to 2011, he worked for the Ukrainian bank within the BNP Paribas Group, Ukrsibbank, initially as Deputy Director of Retail Banking, then as Director of Retail Banking and Vice President of the Bank's Management Board. He later held the position of Director of Retail Banking in the International Retail Banking business line of BNP Paribas Group. In 2014, he assumed the role of Managing Director for the Integration of BNP Paribas Bank Polska and Bank BGŻ. From April 2015, he served as Vice President of the Management Board of BNP Paribas Bank Polska S.A., responsible for the Integration Area, and from September 2015, for the Retail and Business Banking Area.

He was also a member of the Supervisory Board of TFI BNP Paribas until 30 September 2017, when he resigned to take up a position in the management of International Retail Banking (IRB), now known as Europe Méditerranée within the BNP Paribas Group. Since January 2023, he has been CEO of Europe-Mediterranean, responsible for the management of BNP Paribas' universal banks outside the eurozone, including in Algeria, Morocco, Turkey, Ukraine and Poland. He is also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Ukrsibbank and a member of the Supervisory Board of TEB AS.

François Benaroya is also the author of several articles on international economics and co-author of the book L'Echange International (PUF, Que sais-je, 1999), written in collaboration with Jean-Pierre Landau.

François Benaroya meets the requirements of Art. 22aa of the Banking Law Act dated 29 August 1997 (as amended).