Frederic Oudéa is Chief Executive Officer

Chief executive officer

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 to Société Générale

Société Générale

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Career

After his education at École nationale d'administration

École nationale d'administration

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 and Ecole Polytechnique

École Polytechnique

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 in France

France

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, Oudea worked in the economic sector of the French civil service from 1987 until 1995. His work at this time included working as Technical Adviser in the office of Nicolas Sarkozy

Nicolas Sarkozy

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, then Minister of Budget and Communication in 1993. Oudea joined Société Générale in 1995 and has worked in various positions within the bank since that time, in Paris and London

London

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. He served as Deputy Chief Financial officer of the bank from 2002 to May 2008 when he took up his current position of CEO.