Constance Benqué : Independent Director & member of the Audit Committee & Chair of the Corporate Governance, Nominations and Compensation Committee
Date of 1st appointment: April 29th, 2022
Constance Benqué, 63, after serving as a parliamentary assistant for the French Deputy, François d’Aubert, began a career at the Expansion Group in 1981 as Advertising Director (1983‑1990). This was followed by a position as Sales Director for the French business magazine, Capital for the Prisma Presse Group (1990‑94) and then President of Régie Obs, which at the time grouped together the advertising departments of the publications Nouvel Observateur, Challenges and Sciences & Avenir (1994‑1994).
She joined the Lagardère Group in 1999, where she was appointed President of Lagardère Publicité, then in 2014 CEO of ELLE France & International.
Since December 2018, she has been President of the Lagardère Group’s media activities (Lagardère News), which include the radio stations Europe 1, Europe 2, RFM
and the publications Paris Match, Le Journal du Dimanche and ELLE International.
She is a graduate of the University of Paris II Panthéon Assas (Master’s degree in Public Law) and of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.
Current offices:
– Independent Director of Voyageur du Monde;
– Independent Director of Corsair;
– Independent Director and Member of the Supervisory Board of OUTRE-MER R-PLANE (SAS);
– Director of the Air France Foundation.
Offices having expired in the last five years:
– Independent Director of Belvédère (Marie Brizard);
– President of Lagardère Active Corporate;
– President of Elle International;
– President of Lagardère Publicité News.
Term of office expiring at the close of the Annual General Meeting in 2026.