Autorité Des Marchés Financiers: Edouard Vieillefond Appointed Managing Director In Charge Of The Regulatory Policy And International Affairs Division

Edouard Vieillefond has been appointed Managing Director in charge of the AMF's Regulatory Policy and International Affairs Division with effect from 1 July 2009 to replace Hubert Reynier.

Mr Vieillefond, a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique, holds a postgraduate degree in industrial economics. He began his career in 1995 at the Defence Ministry.

In 1998 he joined the Treasury Department of the Ministry of Economics and Finance as deputy head of the international monetary and financial system department, which draws up French policy on international monetary and financial affairs.

In 2001 he was appointed to Brussels as Deputy Secretary General of the European Union's Economic and Financial Committee (EFC) at the European Commission, where he prepared the meetings of the EFC, the Council of Ministers, ECOFIN and the Eurogroup.

Mr Vieillefond moved in 2003 to the State Shareholding Agency at the Treasury and Economic Policy Directorate of the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry, where he served as Head of the rail, sea and automotive transport unit (2003-2006) and then as Investment Director at the energy division, the position he has held until now.