<p>Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of L’Oréal<br />Born in France in 1956, Jean-Paul Agon joined L’Oréal in 1978 after graduating from HEC<br />international business school.<br />After a brief stint in 1980 as a product manager for the Consumer Products Division in France, he<br />began his international career in 1981, at 24 years old, becoming Managing Director of the Consumer<br />Products subsidiary of L'Oréal in Greece.<br />In 1985, Mr. Agon was recalled to France to become the General Manager of L'Oréal Paris in France.<br />He launched the Studio Line range and relaunched the Plénitude and Elsève brands.<br />In 1989, then-CEO Lindsay Owen-Jones entrusted him with leading Biotherm, a brand of the Luxury<br />Products Division, where he undertook a strategic repositioning.<br />In 1994, Jean-Paul Agon took over the management of L'Oréal in Germany, then the largest European<br />market after France. He ran the subsidiary for three years.<br />In 1997, Lindsay Owen-Jones asked him to set-up and lead the L’Oréal Asia Zone, lending fresh<br />impetus to these still-emerging markets.<br />In September 2001, Jean-Paul Agon was appointed President of L'Oréal's North American<br />subsidiaries, the first market worldwide that represented about a quarter of the Group’s sales.<br />The Board of Directors appointed him as Chief Executive Officer in 2006, then as Chairman and Chief<br />Executive Officer in 2011.<br />In 2009, he received the Ethical Resource Center’s Pace Leadership in Ethics Award for L’Oréal’s<br />achievements in the area of business ethics, diversity, financial transparency and sustainable<br />development.<br />He was 2015 Visionary of the Year (Women’s Wear Daily).<br />Jean-Paul Agon is a Director of Air Liquide, a member of the European Round Table of Industrialists,<br />and a member of the Board of Directors of the Consumer Goods Forum.<br />He is also an officer of the French Legion of Honour.</p>