OLIVIER KLEIN

Bio

Career path • Member of the Supervisory Board and the Risk Committee of BPCE Group • First Deputy Chairman of the Fédération Nationale des Banques Populaires • Member of the board of Rexecode • Affiliate Professor at HEC in Economics and Finance (Monetary Policy, Financial Cycles and Crises and Banking) and co-director of the Grande Ecole Major (Master 2) and specialized Master of the same name: Economics and Finance and the Master: Economics and Finance • President of the French section of the European League for Economic Cooperation (LECE) • Distinguished for his investment in the service of the general interest, with the rank of Knight of the Legion of Honor, promotion of January 1, 2021. Graduation Olivier Klein is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique (ENSAE) and of HEC Graduate School of Finance, has a degree in Economics (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne) and holds Russian and English language diplomas. BFCE Olivier Klein joined the BFCE (Banque Francaise du Commerce Exterieure) in 1985 and held several positions of responsibility. He was in charge of the Foreign Exchange risk and Interest risk management department for the bank’s major clients. Then he created and managed the investment bank specializing in Acquisitions & Mergers and Private Equity. He was then appointed corporate banking Regional Director of the Rhone-Alpes-Auvergne-Bourgogne-Franche Comté areas for medium and large sized companies. In addition, he was part of the working group that was in charge of the merger of Crédit National and BFCE which became Natexis. Caisse d’Epargne Olivier Klein then joined the Caisse d’Epargne group in 1998 and served as CEO for Caisse d’Epargne Ile-de-France Ouest from 2000 onwards. In early 2007 Olivier Klein was asked to manage the merger of Caisse d’Epargne Lyon and Caisse d’Epargne Grenoble and was duly appointed as CEO of Caisse d’Epargne Rhone-Alpes (the second largest bank of the Groupe Caisse d’ Epargne) after they successfully merged in June 2007. In parallel he chairs the retail banking committee of the Groupe Caisse d’Epargne. BPCE In February 2010 he was appointed as CEO – Commercial Banking and Insurance- of Groupe BPCE (Groupe Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne) overseeing Banques Populaires, Caisse d’Epargne and Banque Palatine. At this time he was simultaneously both a member of the Board at Natixis and at CNP and was also Chairman of the Board at Banque Palatine. BRED Group Olivier Klein has been CEO of BRED Group – Groupe BPCE’s largest commercial bank- since October 2012. The BRED Group has a retail bank, a corporate bank, a private bank, a trading desk, an asset management company, an insurance company, a Private Equity activity and bank subsidiaries in South East Asia, the Pacific region, the Horn of Africa and in Switzerland. From 2012 to 2022, BRED’s results have been remarkable, with a 81% increase in net banking income and a x2,8 increase in consolidated net profit.