Annette Messemer

Photo de Annette Messemer, administratrice référente de VINCI

Lead director of the board of directors, VINCI

Director since: 2023
Current appointment ends: SGM 2027
Number of VINCI shares held: 1,000
Age: 61
Director considered independent by the Board of Directors.
 

Outside the VINCI Group in listed companies
Appointments and other positions held at 31/12/2025
- Director of Société Générale, Chair of its Compensation Committee and member of its Risk Committee
- Director of Savencia SA and member of its Audit Committee
- Director of Imerys SA, Chair of both its Appointments Committee and its Compensation Committee, and member of its Strategy and Sustainability Committee


Appointments and other positions that have expired during the last five financial years
- Director of EssilorLuxottica SA and member of both its Audit and Risk Committee and its Nomination and Compensation Committee (from 2018 to 2021)
 


Outside the VINCI Group in unlisted companies or other structures
Appointments and other positions held at 31/12/2025
None.

Appointments and other positions that have expired during the last five financial years
- Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Babbel Group AG (Germany) and Chair of its Audit Committee from 2020 to 2024
 


Background
Annette Messemer holds a PhD in political science from the University of Bonn, a master’s degree in international economics from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and is a graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris. She started her career in investment banking at JP Morgan in New York in 1994, then in Frankfurt and London. She left JP Morgan in 2006 as a senior banker to join Merrill Lynch as Managing Director, Investment Banking at its German subsidiary, where she also served on the Executive Committee. In 2010, she was appointed to the Supervisory Board of WestLB by the German Ministry of Finance, before joining Commerzbank in 2013, where she was a member of the Group Executive Committee and Divisional Board Member for Corporate Clients until June 2018. Ms Messemer is currently a board member of several companies.