Clara Gaymard is co-founder of RAISE.

Clara Gaymard and Gonzague de Blignières launched in April 2018 the “Mouvement pour une Economie Bienveillante” (the Movment for a Benevolent Economy).

Clara Gaymard is member of the Board of Directors of Bouygues and LVMH.

From 2006 to 2016, she was President and CEO of General Electric France. Prior to those positions, she held prominent international functions, especially to develop relations between GE and governments.

Clara Gaymard started her career in 1982 at Paris city hall and joined in 1986 the State Audit Office as an auditor then as a counsellor. In 1991, she became Business Advisor and worked at the Economic Section of the French embassy in Cairo, Egypt.  Back in Paris, she was in charge of EU economic relations at the Ministry of Economy and became in 1995 chief of staff of the Minister of Solidarity between Generations. Then she was responsible for the “SME mission” until 2003 at the Ministry of Economy and Finance before to be appointed, in 2003, as Ambassador and Delegate for International Investments and President of Invest In France Agency (AFII).

Clara was also President of the Women’s Forum from 2015 to 2018.

Former student of ENA, Clara Gaymard is a graduate of IEP Paris.

Clara is an Officer in the National Order of Merit and Knight of Legion of Honor. She is also Commendatore of Italian Republic Merit Order.

Clara is also author of several novels and essays, including “Faut qu’on parle” published in 2016.

Languages spoken: French and English

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