Financing Innovation and Growth:
Reforming a Dysfunctional System
1-2 February 2012, London, UK
Saint-Gobain
Jean-Louis Beffa, Chairman and CEO of Saint-Gobain, a leading multinational company specialized in glass and high performance materials. Jean-Louis Beffa is also Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of BNP Paribas, a Director of GDF-Suez and of Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, a member of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG, as well as of Le Monde S.A. and Société Editrice du Monde S.A., Chairman of Claude Bernard Participations SAS and a member of the Supervisory Board of Le Monde Partenaires SAS. Jean-Louis Beffa and Nobel Prize winner Robert Solow co-direct the Cournot Centre for Economic Studies in Paris.