Luxembourg, Belgium, and Paris, France – 1 February 2023: eureKARE, an innovative investment company for disruptive synthetic biology applications, announces the appointment of Anne Lauvergeon to its Board of Directors.

Ms. Lauvergeon brings an extensive background in the management of large energy corporations (most notably as CEO of Areva), finance, and government.

Starting her career working in the French Government, Ms. Lauvergeon held several important positions during the leadership of François Mitterrand. This included being named Assistant Secretary General in 1991 and preparing international meetings such as the G7 summit. In 1995, Ms. Lauvergeon joined the banking sector, and became a managing partner of Lazard, one of the world’s leading financial advisory and asset management firms. She then became the general director of Alcatel before being appointed as CEO of the energy company Areva, resulting from a merger of several companies.

Since leaving Areva, Ms. Lauvergeon has been a partner and managing director of Efficiency Capital, an investment firm that focuses on energy, technologies, and natural resources. She is founder, chairman and CEO of A.L.P. SAS, an advisory company. She has served on the Boards like Total, Vodafone, Suez, Airbus, the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy, and other well-known organizations.

Ms. Lauvergeon has training in physics from the École Normale Supérieure and in engineering from the Corps des Mines. She also has training in chemical safety from France’s Commissariat à l’énergie atomique.