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Alfred Bouckaert

Member of the AXA Management Board, Chief Executive Officer for Northern, Central and Eastern Europe business unit

Born August 2, 1946

Mandate and number of AXA Shares

  • Elected on October 12, 2009.
  • First elected to the Board on October 11, 2006
  • Number of AXA shares held as of December 31, 2008: 13,619

As of December 31,2008

Expertise and experience

In 1968, Mr. Alfred Bouckaert started working as a stockbroker with JM Finn & Co in London. In 1972, he joined the Chase Manhattan Bank where he held various commercial and credit posts before becoming Chase's Manager of Commercial Banking for Belgium. In 1984, he was appointed General Manager of Chase in Copenhagen (Denmark) and General Manager and Country Manager of Chase in Belgium in 1986. In 1989, when Chase Manhattan Bank's Belgian operations were sold to Crédit Lyonnais France, Mr. Bouckaert was in charge of merging Chase's and Crédit Lyonnais's Belgian Operations. In 1994, he was asked by Crédit Lyonnais to head the bank's European Operations. In 1999, he became Managing Director of AXA Royale Belge and AXA also appointed him Country Manager for the Benelux (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg). In 2005, Mr. Bouckaert became General Manager of the Group's Northern European Region (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland). Since October 2006, Mr. Bouckaert has been a member of the AXA Management Board, in charge of operations in the Northern, Central & Eastern Europe Region (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Poland (Life insurance), Czech Republic, Solvak Republic, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia). Since April 2007, he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of AXA Belgium SA (Belgium) and since December 2007, he has been permanent representative of AXA to the Supervisory Board of AXA Ukraine and AXA Insurance (Ukraine). Since September 2008, he has been a director of RESO (Russia).

Positions currently held in the AXA Group

  • Member of the Management Board: AXA
  • Managing Director: AXA Holdings Belgium (Belgium)
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors:
    AXA Belgium SA (Belgium)
    AXA Participations Belgium (Belgium)
    AXA Bank Europe SA (Belgium)
    AXA Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
    AXA Assurances Luxembourg SA (Luxembourg)
    AXA Assurances Vie Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
    AXA Konzern AG (Germany)
    AXA Service AG (Germany)
    AXA ART Versicherung AG (Germany)
    AXA Versicherung AG (Switzerland)
    AXA Leben (Switzerland)
    AXA Lebensversicherung AG (Germany)
    AXA Versicherung AG (Germany)
  • Director of member of the Supervisory Board:
    L'Ardenne Prévoyante (Belgium)
    Contere (Luxembourg)
    AXA Insurance SA (Greece)
    RESO (Russia)
  • Permanent representative of AXA to the Supervisory Board of AXA Ukraine (Ukraine) (formerly Ukrainian Insurance Alliance) and AXA Insurance (Ukraine) (formerly Insurance Company Vesko)

Positions currently held outside the AXA Group

  • Consuco (Belgium), patrimonial family company
  • De Waere (Belgium), patrimonial family company

Previous directorships held during the last five years

  • Managing Director: AXA Belgium SA (Belgium)
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors:
    Winterthur-Europe Assurances (Belgium)
    L'Ardenne Prévoyante (Belgium)
    Viaxis (Belgium)
  • Chairman Managing Director: Royale Belge Investissements (Belgium)
  • Director:
    Servis (Belgium)
    Servis-Life (Belgium)
    AXA Nederland BV (The Netherlands)
    AXA Verzekeringen (The Netherlands)
    AXA Bank AG (Germany)