Marie-Hélène Laimay, Chair

Marie-Hélène Laimay has a degree in business from a French business school and an accounting qualification. She spent three years as an auditor with Ernst & Young before joining Sanofi in 1985. Mrs Laimay served in a variety of financial positions, including Financial Director of Sanofi’s beauty division and Deputy Financial Director of Sanofi-Synthélabo following the merger with Synthélabo in 1999. From November 2000 to May 2002, she served as Vice President, Internal Audit, and from May 2002 to August 2004 as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, before being appointed to her present position.

She is member of the Board of the French Institute IFACI “Institut Français de l’Audit et du Contrôle”.