Robert Castaigne
Former Chief Financial Officer and former member of the Executive Committee of Total
Director since: 2007
Current appointment ends: 2015 General Meeting
Age: 66
Appointments in listed companies: Director and member of the Audit Committee of Sanofi Aventis and Director and member of the Audit Committee of Société Générale.
Other appointments: Director and Member of the Audit Committee of Compagnie Nationale à Portefeuille (Belgium).
Appointments that have expired during the last five financial years: Director and member of the Audit Committee of Compagnie Nationale à Portefeuille (Belgium) since 3 October 2011; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Total Nucléaire and of Total Chimie; Director of Arkema, Elf Aquitaine, Total Gestion Filiales, Hutchinson, Total Gabon, Petrofina (Belgium), Alphega (Bermuda), Omnium Insurance & Reinsurance Company Ltd (Bermuda) and Total Upstream UK Ltd.
Background: Robert Castaigne is a graduate of the École Centrale de Lille and the École Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs. He also holds a doctorate in economics from Université de Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne. He was an engineer at Total from 1 January 1972 and Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Committee of Total from June 1994 to May 2008.