Baudouin Prot

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Baudouin Prot
Born (1951-05-24) 24 May 1951 (age 72)
Paris, France
Alma mater HEC Paris, ÉNA
Occupation(s)Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group
Former CEO of BNP Paribas

Baudouin Prot (born 24 May 1951) is a French economist who was chairman of BNP Paribas' board of directors until December 2014. He is now a senior advisor at Boston Consulting Group and Partners Group. [1]

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Early life

Prot was born 24 May 1951. He graduated from HEC Paris in 1972, and from the École nationale d'administration in 1976. [2]

Career

Public sector

From 1974 to 1983 Prot was successively the Deputy Prefect of the Franche-Comté region of France, French General Inspector of Finance, and the deputy director of Energy and Raw Materials of the Ministry of Industry.

Private banking

Prot joined Banque Nationale de Paris in 1983. After BNP merged with Paribas in 2000, he was appointed CEO in 2003. [3] Together with his mentor Michel Pébereau, he built BNP into one of the eurozone’s biggest banks with €1.8 trillion in assets and more than 185,000 employees in 75 countries. [4] He stepped down in 2011 to become chairman of the bank's Board of Directors.

When BNP had to pay $8.9 billion fine to US regulators for sanctions violations – the bank had illegally processed more than $30 billion of transactions for groups in Sudan, Iran and Cuba between 2002 and 2012 [5] –, Prot was replaced by Jean Lemierre. [6]

Other activities

Corporate boards

Non-profit organizations

Recognition

In 2006 Prot was awarded ‘Financier of the Year’, primarily in acknowledgement of the successful acquisition of Italian bank Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, which was executed in a record time. In 2007 Prot also picked up the ‘Social and Corporate Responsibility’ award by the Foreign Policy Association (FPA). [8]

In April 2010, Prot became an Officer of the Légion d'honneur. [9]

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References

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  6. Martin Arnold (September 23, 2014), BNP Paribas chairman Baudouin Prot to step down Financial Times .
  7. Board of Directors Veolia.
  8. "Baudouin Prot". European CEO. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  9. Le Figaro

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