Etienne Bouas-Laurent, recently CEO of AXA Hong Kong, became AXA Deputy Chief Financial Officer and a Member of AXA’s Management Committee on September 1st, and will become AXA Chief Financial Officer on January 1, 2020. Etienne Bouas-Laurent graduated from ESCP Europe business school. He started his career in 1990 at Guy Barbier & Associés (Arthur Andersen) in Paris, before joining Franz Haniel & Cie in Duisburg in 1992. From 1997, he has been occupying various financial and operational functions within AXA, including Group Corporate Finance Manager (1997/1999), Head of Controlling of AXA France (2000/2005), Head of Group Investor Relations (2006/2010), Managing Director of AXA Wealth Management France (2010/2012), and Chief Financial Officer of AXA Germany (2012/2016,) before moving to Hong Kong.