Board of Directors

Presentation of the Board of Directors

The Board of Directors guides, establishes priorities for and rubber-stamps the actions of the Foundation.

President : :

José Luis Duran , Chairman of the Carrefour Management Board and President of the Foundation

Four representatives of Carrefour Group founders : :

José Maria Folache , Member of the Management Board, Managing Director - Europe 

Eric Uzan , Managing Director - Americas

Noël Prioux , Managing Director - Other Asian countries

Guy Yraeta , Executive Director for Belgium, Spain, Italy and Poland

One Carrefour employees representative :  :

Genevieve-Bruynseels , Communications and Solidarity Manager, Carrefour Belgium

Four guest members :

Boutros Boutros-Ghali , former secretary-general of the United Nations. President of the national human rights commission, Egypt

Xavier Emmanuelli , founder and president of SAMU Social International/Paris. Former government minister

Wu Jianmin  , president of the university of foreign affairs, China. Former Chinese ambassador to France

Guy Paillotin , honorary president of the INRA and life secretary to the Académie d’Agriculture, France

 

The Focus action

Carrefour mobilizes to bring help to the Chinese people

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale struck China on Monday 12 May 2008 (at 2.28 pm local time). The epicentre was close to Wenchuan in Sichuan province, in the south west of the country. When the catastrophe was announced on Monday evening, the Carrefour Group - via its International Foundation - paid a grant of 2 million yuan (€200,000) to the Chinese Red Cross as an initial emergency measure.


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