The former Minister of the Armies would replace another former minister, Anne-Marie Couderc.
The former Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly is expected to take the helm of the Air France-KLM board of directors next year, reported on Wednesday The gallery. According to information from the economic publication, Florence Parly, 59, is a “great favoritefor this non-executive position, where she would replace another former minister, Anne-Marie Couderc. Affected by the age limit, the latter, aged 72, will have to leave her post at the next general meeting of the Franco-Dutch air group, in May 2023.
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The possible appointment of Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces from June 2017 to May 2022, will have to receive the approval of the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP). However, if her ministerial portfolio was not linked to the group, this is not the case with the former position of her husband. Martin Vial has just left the head of the State Participation Agency (APE), and he represented public authorities ex officio on the Board of Directors of Air France-KLM.
A group she knows well
It was under its mandate at the APE that the government came to the aid of the group seriously affected by the consequences of Covid-19, via loans and two recapitalizations which saw the State double its stake in the company, to 28.6%. Asked by AFP, the Ministry of the Economy did not react on the merits. Air France-KLM declined to comment. Enarque, former adviser to Lionel Jospin at Matignon in 1997 then Secretary of State for the Budget in 2000, Florence Parly knows Air France well, where she worked from 2006 after two years as vice-president of the Burgundy regional council. Within the company, she had first joined the financial department, then headed the freight branch. In 2014, she joined the SNCF, of which she headed the Voyageurs branch when she was called to the government in 2017.