Véronique Lacour will be joining EDF on 1 December as Executive Director, Transformation and Operational Efficiency and member of Executive Committee. She will be tasked with overseeing the Group's activities in the areas of information systems, purchasing, property and shared services.

Véronique Lacour, 52, holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Information Systems from the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne.

She started her career at Thales in 1987 where she gained solid experience in information systems before taking up the post of Director of Information Systems for a new division of Thales. Between 2007 and 2009 she managed the HR information systems shared service. She moved to Safran in 2009 where she held the posts, first, of Chief Information Officer for Safran Aircraft Engines (formerly Snecma) and later, in 2013, Improvement initiatives Director where she managed the continuous improvement and transformation initiatives. She went on to become Programmes Director for Safran Analytics, and was involved in the creation of this new Big Data-focused entity as part of the Group's digital transformation strategy.

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