Michel de Fabiani

President, Franco-British Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Non-Executive Director, BP France, the Rhodia Group and the Vallourec Group

In June 2004, Michel de Fabiani was the first French national to be nominated Chairman of the France-British Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Former Non-Executive Director of the Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP), Michel is currently Non-Executive Director for BP France, the Rhodia Group, the Vallourec Group, EB TRANS, SEMS Morocco and Star Oil, Mali. He is also President of the Board for the British Hertford Hospital in Paris since November 2006 and the President and founder of the Cercle Economique Sully.

After studying at secondary schools in Lyon, he attended the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) one of the top Business Schools in Paris (1967). He went on to join the BP Group in 1969 and held various posts in the company’s Nutrition, Chemicals, Finance, and Oil businesses in Milan, Paris and Brussels.

Michel was appointed Chairman and CEO of BP France in 1995 and became CEO of the BP Fuels Joint Venture in Europe in 1999 and Vice President Europe for the BP Group in 1997.

He was also Vice President of EUROPIA (the Brussels-based European Petroleum Industry Association) from 1997 until March 2004.

Married to Marie-Odile Bongard, he has a son and two daughters. He enjoys classical music, fitness, collecting ancient books on Rome and Athens and miniature cars.