About Marguerite Bérard

Marguerite Bérard joined Institut Montaigne’s Board of Directors in 2015. She is Head of BNP Paribas French Retail Banking and Member of the Executive Committee.  She started her career in 2004 at the Inspection Générale des Finances, an interdepartmental auditing and supervisory body in France. From 2010 to 2012, she worked as Chief of Staff in the office of the Minister of Labor, Employment, and Health. Between 2012 and 2017, Marguerite Bérard was Chief Executive Officer responsible for the Group Strategy, Finance, Legal affairs, and Group Company Secretary, and member of the General Management Committee of the bank and insurance group BPCE.  Bérard is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris, the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs at Princeton University, as well as the French National School of Administration (ENA). France networks covers corporate banking, private banking and retail banking operations in France. In 2020 there were 24,000 people in these activities serving 6.9 million individual clients, 591,000 professional clients and very small businesses, 31,300 companies (small and medium-sized businesses, large corporations) and more than 57,000 non-profit organisations. Net banking income amounted to over 5.9 billion euros. Marguerite Bérard’s career was previously in the public sector. Marguerite graduated from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration in 2004, becoming a finance inspector and then serving as technical advisor and then advisor on labour issues to the office of the President of the French Republic between May 2007 and the end of 2010.