Bernard Ramanantsoa - Orange SA Independent Director

Mr. Bernard Ramanantsoa was Independent Director of Orange S.A. since June 7, 2016. Since then he was also Chairman of the Company Audit Committee. He acts as Director of several companies as well as of universities and Grandes Ecoles. He started, during his military service, as Lecturer at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de lAeronautique et de lEspace in 1971 and 1972, before joining the SNCF where he became head of the Grandes Lignes Marketing Division in 1978. In 1979, he joined the HEC faculty as professor of Business Strategy and Policy, specializing in the link between strategy and corporate culture. After being appointed as the Head of Faculty and Research, he became the Managing Director of HEC Paris from 1995 to 2015. He gave the institution a decidedly international dimension. He is the author of numerous communications and publications in the field of business management. He received the Harvard LExpansion Prize in 1989 for Technologie et Strategie dentreprise and the Prize from the Academie des Sciences Commerciales in 1983 for Strategie de lEntreprise et Diversification. He wrote Apprendre et Oser, published by Albin Michel, and Lenseignement superieur francais par dela les frontieres lurgence dune strategie published by France Strategie. He holds an Engineering degree from the Ecole Superieure dAeronautique et de lEspace and has a MBA from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, a post graduate degree in Sociology from Universite Denis Diderot Paris, a Ph.D. in Management Sciences from Universite Paris Dauphine and a further post graduate degree in the History of Philosophy from Universite Paris I. He is a Knight of the French Legion of Honor and an Officer of the French Order of Merit, Knight of the Palmes Academiques and Officer of the National Malgache Order. since 2016.