Governance

The RTE Managing Board

A limited company with an executive board and an supervisory council, RTE has specific features pertaining to its role as France’s transmission system operator (TSO). Its articles of association and its modes of governance ensure that it remains autonomous, independent and neutral.

Its executive board has the broadest powers to act on the company’s behalf in all circumstances, within the limit of the prerogatives devolved to the Shareholders' Meeting and the Supervisory Council. It is solely authorised to implement actions pertaining directly to the operation, maintenance and development of the public transmission system within the scope of the responsibilities assigned to the company.

Further to the opinion issued by France’s Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE), its members are appointed by the Supervisory Council.

On September 1st, 2020, Xavier Piechaczyk became President of the Managing Board.

Further to the favourable decision issued by the French Energy Regulation Commission (CRE), the Supervisory Board was able to proceed with the appointments, on 30 October 2020, of four new members to the company’s Executive Board:

• Thérèse Boussard, Member of the Managing Board, Managing Director of the Infrastructure Management Division,
• Clotilde Levillain, Member of the Managing Board, Managing Director of the Customers · Market & System Division,
• Thomas Veyrenc, Member of the Managing Board, Managing Director of the Finance, Purchasing and Risks Division (starting October 1st, 2023),
• Sophie Moreau-Follenfant, Member of the Managing Board, Managing Director of the Transformation and Employees Workplace Division.

These appointments are effective as of Monday 2 November 2020.

The Executive Committee handles all RTE affairs that require coordination and decision-making in the orientation, contracting, implementation and monitoring phases.
The Committee consists of the following persons:

The President of the Managing Board 

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Xavier Piechaczyk, President of the Managing Board

Managing Directors of Divisions, members of the Managing Board

Image	Thérèse Boussard, Member of the  Managing Board, Managing Director of the Infrastructure Management Division
Image	Clotilde Levillain, Member of the  Managing Board, Managing Director of the Customers · Market & System Division
Image	Thomas Veyrenc, Member of the Managing Board, Managing Director of the Finance, Purchasing and Risks Division (Starting October 1st, 2023)
Image	Sophie Moreau-Follenfant, Member of the Managing Board, Managing Director of the Transformation and Employees Workplace Division

Executive directors in charge of a Division 

Image	Yasmine-Eva Farès-Emery, Executive Director in charge of the Communications Division
Image	Séverine Larere, Secretary General, Executive Director in charge of the General Secretariat Division
Image	Thomas Veyrenc, Executive Director in charge of the Strategy, Foresight and Evaluation Division

Executive Directors

Image	Khalid Abdallaoui, Executive Director in charge of the Development and Engineering Department
Image	Jean-Philippe Bonnet, Deputy to the Executive Director in charge of the Strategy, Foresight and Evaluation Division
Image	Sébastien Henry,Deputy to the Managing Director of the Customers – Market and System Division,   Executive Director in charge of R&D, Design and Operation of Digital and Information Systems
Image	Jean-Paul Roubin, Deputy to the Managing Director of the Customers – Market and System Division,   Executive Director in charge of Customers and Electricity System Operation
Image	Régis Boigegrain, Executive Director in charge of Interconnections & At Sea Network
Image	Claire Grandet, Executive Director in charge of the Maintenance Department
Image	Maurice Dierick, Executive Director in charge of the European Affairs Department
Image	Vincent Thouvenin, Executive director in charge of International affairs

The appointment of the members of the Executive Committee is effective as of November 30, 2020.

The Supervisory Council reviews and issues its opinion on decisions pertaining to the company’s major strategic, economic, financial or technological policies, subject to the Managing Board’s sole authority regarding  decisions about grid operations and activities pertaining to the preparation and implementation of the ten-year network development plan. It oversees the Executive Board’s governance of RTE in accordance with the provisions of the energy code. It is supported by two specialist committees: the Economic Oversight and Audit Committee (CSEA) and the Compensation Review Committee.

Economic Oversight and Audit Committee (CSEA)

In preparation for the meetings of the Supervisory Council, this committee  reviews all the company’s financial data pertaining to the budget, to the economic and financial outlook, to annual statements and six-monthly results, to risk-assessment and risk-management policy (informed by the risk-mapping process), as well as the audit programme, audit results, timely completion of the action plan and internal oversight.

Compensation review committee

This committee issues opinions on the determination of all types of compensation that may be awarded to managing agents for the discharge of their duties.

Composition of the Oversight Council

The Supervisory Council is composed of the following: 

• 6 members representing the shareholder, CTE;
• The State, a legal person and a State administrator, appointed under articles 4 and 6 of order 2014-948 of the 20 August 2014 pertaining to governance and transactions involving the capital of corporations with government participation;
• 4 members representing the workforce.
   

Certain members of the Supervisory Council have to meet specific requirements that are verified by France’s Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) prior to their appointment, in order to maintain a higher level of independence regarding the governance of the transmission system than that pertaining to supply and generation structures (1).

The supervisory council members :

• Xavier Girre, Group Senior Executive Vice President, Finance, EDF,
• Grégory Trannoy, Director of the EDF Management University, EDF,
• Louise Vilain, Pulse Ventures Director, EDF,
• Catherine Mayenobe, General Secretary, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations Group,
• Virginie Chapron-Du Jeu, Finance Director, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations Group,
• Philippe Bajou, General Secretary and Deputy CEO, La Poste Group,
• Arthur Faust, Deputy head of Shareholdings for Energy, Government Shareholding Agency - French Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Recovery,
• Florence Tordjman, President of the Section for Energy, Construction and Innovation, The General Council for Environment and Sustainable Development (CGEDD), French Ministry of Ecology,
• Christophe Aime, Elected Employee Representative (sponsored by the GCT trade union)
• Paul Alfontes, Elected Employee Representative (sponsored by the CFE-CGC trade union)
• Philippe Clavel, Elected Employee Representative (sponsored by the CFDT trade union)
• Laurence Holderle, Elected Employee Representative (sponsored by the CGT trade union).

(1) The list of all mandates and functions exercised by each managing agent, regulated agreements and any capital increases are detailed in the report on corporate governance.

Compliance accountability

European regulations and the energy code call for the appointment of a compliance officer. Subject to the powers assigned to the CRE in its own right, the compliance officer’s role is to ensure that RTE’s practices comply with requirements pertaining to its independence with regard to the corporation’s other vertically integrated companies.

Hervé MIGNON is head of the Compliance Accountability office. He may attend all General Meetings, Oversight Council meetings and specialist committee meetings, as well as any meetings deemed necessary for the discharge of his duties.
For the duration of his mandate, he has the broadest powers of investigation with access to both documentary and physical evidence. Subject to the information he has to submit to the CRE, he is bound by professional secrecy with regard to commercially sensitive information gathered for purposes of discharging his duties.