He accumulates ministerial offices, financial experience and industrial skills.
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The job description was demanding. The State had defined, in July, the profile of the future boss of EDF, after the announcement of the early departure of its president and chief executive officer, Jean-Bernard Lévy. “Someone who masters major industrial programs”, had brushed the Minister of Economy and Finance in large lines, Bruno Le Maire, and who has the “sense of compromise” to reform the giant of the ‘Electricity, without alienating unions or the European Commission.
At the end of long weeks of research, the head of state, Emmanuel Macron, decided: Luc Rémont, 53, will soon be appointed to the head of EDF. “The President of the Republic plans, on the proposal of the Prime Minister, to appoint Luc Rémont”, “as President and Chief Executive Officer of Electricity of France,” said the presidency Thursday, September 29, adding that Parliament will have to Give this appointment down.
The choice of M. Rémont is after all classic. Until now in charge of part of the international activities of Schneider Electric, this polytechnician, a graduate of the National School of Advanced Techniques, has shared his career between high public service and private sector. The route of the new boss is first of all that of a child from the Lyon bourgeoisie. Son of a psychiatrist and a long mayor engineer (UDF, then UMP) of Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d’Or (Rhône), a chic suburb of Lyon, this father of four is married to a normalienne , Director of the expertise of Bpifrance and Author in 1998 of a study on … the dismantling of nuclear power plants.
“very structured and very loyal”
m. Rémont began his career at the Directorate General of Armament (DGA), from 1993 to 1996, and continued to the Treasury, before serving all the Ministers of Economy and Finance, between 2002 and 2007, in the cabinets of Francis Mer, Nicolas Sarkozy, Hervé Gaymard and Thierry Breton. As the state wished, the man does not have the profile of the political boss. “But Luc Rémont knows perfectly how public decisions are made, and it is very useful for an EDF boss”, nuances a former close advisor to Mr. Sarkozy, who remembers a very structured and very loyal collaborator ” “, in whom he had” an absolute confidence “.
A colleague in Mr. Sea’s office, now manager at Medef, completes: “He followed the portfolio of the shareholder state. I have never seen him get angry, even when there were files Complicated, with Brussels in particular. “And the hot files were chained during his” Bercy years “: rescue of Alstom, privatization of highways and the national maritime company Corse-Méditerranée, precipitated marriage of France with Suez to counter the ‘Italian Enel attack, endless negotiations with unions on the opening of the energy market…
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