Christophe de Margerie

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Christophe de Margerie (2009)

Christophe Gabriel Jean Marie Jacquin de Margerie (born August 6, 1951 in Mareuil-sur-Lay-Dissais , Vendée , †  October 20, 2014 in Moscow ) was a French manager . He was CEO of Total SA from February 2007 until his death .

Life

Christophe de Margerie was born into a family of the Taittinger champagne dynasty .

He attended the ESCP Europe business school in Paris. He then began his career in 1974 in the finance department of Total . In the following years he worked for the group in Asia , the Middle East (1995 to 1999), Africa and North America .

In 1990 he became Chief Financial Officer ( CFO ) in the Middle East , where he rose to Deputy Executive Vice President . In June 1995 he became Total Vice President for the Middle East. In 1999 he was named President for Exploration and Production. On January 1, 2000, he became Senior Executive Vice President of the Production and Exploration Division. In February 2007 he succeeded the previous CEO of Total Thierry Desmarest .

In March 2007, de Margerie was investigated for bribery. The bribe is said to have given Total access to Iranian natural gas. A case against him and other suspects for circumventing the oil-for-food program for Iraq was dropped in 2013 after years of investigation.

Christophe de Margerie expressed in 2009 about global peak oil ( peak oil ) , the world can never be more than 100 million barrels of oil per day benefit because the geological, financial and political conditions did not allow it.

death

On October 20, 2014, de Margerie died in a flight accident at Moscow-Vnukowo Airport : the Dassault Falcon 50 business jet, with which he was the only passenger to travel to Paris, collided with a snow plow when it took off around midnight (local time) in fog on the runway. The three crew members (Yann Pican, Maxime Rassiat and Ruslana Vervelle) also died. De Margerie left behind a wife and three grown children. On November 1, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin posthumously awarded him the Order of Honor .

The successor in the management of Total SA took place in a tandem : his predecessor Thierry Desmarest was appointed President, Patrick Pouyanné as General Manager.

Tanker

By Christophe de Margerie is a liquefied gas tanker named, the first time in summer 2017 Northeast Passage without the aid of an icebreaker through her.

Web links

Commons : Christophe de Margerie  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Willms: Trouble shortly after taking office. Oil and gas company Total. Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 22, 2007, accessed on October 3, 2010 .
  2. ↑ a b Appointments . ( Memento of September 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: Total SA, July 17, 2003 (English)
  3. ↑ a b TOTAL-CHEF DE MARGERIE The tragic death of “Big Mustache” handelsblatt.de, October 21, 2014
  4. ↑ Taittinger-Erbe becomes boss . In: Manager Magazin online, February 14, 2007, accessed October 21, 2014.
  5. ^ Total boss interrogated . In: Manager Magazin online, March 21, 2007, accessed October 21, 2014.
  6. ↑ Procès pétrole contre nourriture: Pasqua et Total relaxés . In: Le Parisien , July 8, 2013, accessed October 21, 2014 (French).
  7. ↑ Total says oil output near peak .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Financial Times , February 16, 2009, accessed October 21, 2014 (fee-based, English).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ft.com  
  8. ↑ Total boss killed in plane crash in Moscow . In: Spiegel Online , October 21, 2014, accessed on the same day.
  9. ↑ handelsblatt.com October 21, 2014: "We have lost the head of the family"
  10. ↑ lemonde.fr: Mort du PDG de Total
  11. ↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 704 of November 1, 2014 "On the Award of C. de Margeries with the Order of Honor" (Russian)
  12. ↑ Total Board of Directors (English)
  13. ^ First tanker crosses northern sea route without ice breaker , BBC August 24, 2017, accessed August 24, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Margerie, Christophe de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES de Margerie, Christophe Gabriel Jean Marie Jacquin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French manager; CEO of Total SA
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Mareuil-sur-Lay-Dissais , Vendée department , France
DATE OF DEATH 20th October 2014
Place of death Moscow Vnukovo Airport , Moscow , Russia