Speaker

Olivier KLEIN

CEO - BRED

Olivier Klein first held several positions of responsibility within BFCE (Banque Française du Commerce Extérieur) – such as Director of the foreign exchange risk and interest rate risk consulting department for the bank’s key clients – for whom he created and managed the investment bank specialized in mergers & acquisitions and private equity. He was also appointed Regional Director of the Rhône-Alpes-Auvergne-Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region there. He was at that time part of the working group in charge of the merger of Crédit National and BFCE to become Natexis.

Olivier Klein then joined the Caisse d’Epargne Group in 1998 and served as CEO of the Board of Caisse d’Epargne Ile-de-France Ouest from 2000 onwards.

In early 2007 Olivier Klein was appointed as Chairman of the Board of Caisse d’Epargne Rhône-Alpes, which was the result of Caisse d’Epargne Rhône-Alpes Lyon and Caisse d’Epargne Alpes merging in June 2007.

In 2010, he was appointed as Chief Executive Officer – Commercial Banking & Insurance – of Groupe BPCE (Groupe Banque Populaire and Groupe Caisse d’Epargne). Meanwhile, Olivier Klein was a member of the NATIXIS’ board and of the CNP’s one and Chairman of Banque Palatine.

Olivier Klein has been CEO of Groupe BPCE’s largest regional commercial bank BRED since September 2012.

The BRED group has a retail bank, a corporate bank, a private bank, an asset management company, a trading desk, an insurance company and bank subsidiaries in South East Asia, Pacific region, the Horn of Africa and Switzerland.

In addition Olivier Klein is an Affiliate Professor of economics and finance at HEC and co- runs the Economics Major and the « Managerial and Financial Economics » Master’s program. He teaches financial economics, monetary policy and banking management and economics. He was also in charge of the “international monetary issues” course at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and manages research groups at the ENSAE school of statistics and economic administration.

Olivier Klein is also a member of the Scientific Committee at HEC and Panthéon-Sorbonne’s Management Science Doctoral School.

Publication (5 max.):

L’avenir de la zone euro, Nouvelle Revue de Géopolitique, 26.04.2013

OUI A L’UNION BANCAIRE EUROPEENNE, Le Monde , 07.01.2013

Olivier Klein’s Preface for « Digital Banking », 27.04.2012