Mr. Pierre de Bausset is an experienced board member, and a researcher and practitioner in corporate governance matters. Until recently, he was a career corporate executive who has held various leadership roles across management, governance, finance and communications. during almost three decades with the Airbus Group. His immediate past assignment was to head Airbus in India as President and Managing Director.
As Secretary General of Airbus Group, he was instrumental in the Group’s governance evolution, and the functioning of its board of directors and its executive committee. Previously, he had led Investor Relations & Financial Communications, and the M&A and Structured Financing team at Aerospatiale at the time of the mergers leading to the formation of the Group. He played a key role in the Group’s subsequent market listing.
Pierre started in the aerospace industry at ATR, arranging financing for customer airlines.
Pierre began his career in banking, at Banque lndosuez, successively at the Beijing, PRC, office of the bank, then in capital markets, and finally in Shipping Finance.
He holds an MBA from INSEAD and studied Chinese and Japanese for Masters at INALCO, the French institute for oriental languages and cultures. He is a chevalier in the French order of the Legion d’honneur.
