AXA has appointed Sandrine Duchêne group director of public affairs, as of the 15th of September 2015.
Sandrine Duchêne will report to Christian Thimann, the group head of strategy, sustainability, and public affairs and a member of the AXA group's executive committee. She will deal with regulatory issues as well as public policy issues of relevance to insurers. She also will have responsibility for the foresight on societal issues.
Before being appointed as group head of public affairs, Ms. Duchêne was deputy director general of the French Treasury, where she was also chief economist and head of international relations. Prior to her latest functions at the Treasury, she worked as adviser to the president of the Republic for economic policy and public finance and as head of the economic forecasts division at INSEE.
Ms. Duchêne graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique.
Learn more: http://www.axa.com.
Victoria Spears
Victoria Prussen Spears is senior vice president of Meyerowitz Communications Inc., a law firm marketing communications consulting company. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Brooklyn Law School, Ms. Spears was an attorney at a leading New York City law firm before joining Meyerowitz Communications. She may be contacted at [email protected].