Patrick Pouyanne

A graduate of École Polytechnique and a Chief Engineer of France’s Corps des Mines, 
Mr. Pouyanné held, between 1989 and 1996, various administrative positions in the 
Ministry of Industry and of Environment and other cabinet positions (technical advisor 
to the Prime Minister – Édouard Balladur – in the fields of the Environment and 
Industry from 1993 to 1995, Chief of staff for the Minister for Information and 
Aerospace Technologies – François Fillon – from 1995 to 1996). In January 1997, he 
joined TotalEnergies’ Exploration & Production division, first as Chief Administrative 
Officer in Angola, before becoming Company representative in Qatar and President of 
the Exploration and Production subsidiary in that country in 1999. In August 2002, he 
was appointed President, Finance, Economy and IT for Exploration & Production. In 
January 2006, he became Senior Vice President, Strategy, Business Development and 
R&D in Exploration & Production and was appointed a member of the Company’s 
Management Committee in May 2006. In March 2011, Mr. Pouyanné was appointed 
Deputy General Manager, Chemicals, and Deputy General Manager, Petrochemicals. 
In January 2012, he became President, Refining & Chemicals and a member of the 
Company’s Executive Committee.
On October 22, 2014, he became Chief Executive Officer of TOTAL S.A. and Chairman 
of the Company’s Executive Committee. On May 29, 2015, he was appointed by the 
Annual Shareholders’ Meeting as director for a three-year term. The Board of Directors 
appointed him as Chairman of the Board of Directors as of December 19, 2015. Mr. 
Pouyanné thus became the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Following the 
renewal of Mr. Pouyanné's directorship at the Shareholders' Meeting on June 1, 2018 
and then on May 28, 2021 for a three-year period, the Board of Directors renewed Mr. 
Pouyanné's term of office as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for a period equal 
to that of his directorship.
Mr. Pouyanné is thus the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TotalEnergies SE.
Mr. Pouyanné is Vice-Chairman of the French association, Entreprises pour 
l’Environnement (EpE), after having been its Chairman between June 2022 and June 
2025. Mr. Pouyanné has also been the Chairman of the Alliance pour l’Education -
United Way association from June 2018 to January 29, 2025, having accepted this 
office as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation. In addition, he has 
been a member of the Board of Directors of Capgemini (since May 2017), of the Board 
of Directors of École Polytechnique (since September 2018), of the Institut du Monde 
Arabe (since 2017) and of the foundation La France s’engage (since 2017). Mr. 
Pouyanné is an Officer of the Légion d’honneur