Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> February 8, 1999
GEORGESCHRISTIAN CHAZOT is Group Managing Director of Eurotunnel. He
was educated in France (Ecole Polytechnique 1958-60) and in the USA
(University of Florida MSEE 1964, IMI Harvard 1972). After 14 years with
Schlumberger in various technical (electronics), commercial and
managerial positions, 15 years with Alcatel-Alsthom where he was
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SAFT then Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of Alcatel Business Systems and an Alcatel Vice
President, and 2 years as Chairman and Chief Executive of Adia France,
Georges ' Christian Chazot is Group Managing Director of Eurotunnel
which he joined in January 1994. He is a Vice-President of the French
Chamber Of Commerce of Great Britain and non executive director of the
non profit Franco ' Japanese Sasakawa Foundation. He has been previously
director of many subsidiaries of SAFT and Alcatel in the five
continents, of the Strategic Planning Institute (Boston, USA), of ACTIM
(a French international governmental agency), of Peat Marwick
Consultants and member of the Advisory Council of the World Economic
Forum (Davos, CH). He became Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur in 1990,
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport in 1995 and Officier dans
l' Ordre National du Merite in 1996. Georges-Christian Chazot is 58 and
is married with three adult children. A yachtsman, he owns a house by
the sea in Ile aux Moines (French Brittany). (GAA024)(12977) Profile
background on Eurotunnel, enough information about the company and about
the business to put us into context for today.
