Claude Bébéar (29 July 1935 – 4 November 2025) was a French businessman.AXA ProfileBusinessWeekVivendi biography He was a onetime CEO of AXA.
Life and career Early life Claude Bébéar was born in Issac, France on 29 July 1935. He graduated from the Lycée Saint-Louis and the École Polytechnique. Bébéar was trained at the Armoured Cavalry Branch Training School in Saumur and did his military service in Algeria. He then received a diploma from the Institute of Actuaries of France.
Career Bébéar started his career at Anciennes Mutuelles, up until he became CEO after André Sahut d'Izarn's death in 1975. In 1985, it became known as AXA.
He helped out Jean-Marie Messier from Vivendi. He was involved in the ousting of the chairmen of Rhodia.
Bébéar was a member of the board of directors of Vivendi, BNP Paribas and Schneider Electric, and was a member of Le Siècle.Frédéric Saliba, 'Le pouvoir à la table du Siècle', in Stratégies, issue 1365, 14 April 2005, p. 49 He was also Chairman of the Institut du mécénat de solidarité and the Institut Montaigne.
Personal life and death Bébéar was a Roman Catholic, widowed with three children, two of whom were adopted from South Korea. In 2007, he was worth .
Bébéar died in France on 4 November 2025, at the age of 90.
Bibliography Le courage de réformer (André Babeau, Odile Jacob, 2002) Ils vont tuer le capitalisme (May 2003)
References
External links "An hour with former CEO of AXA Claude Bebear", Charlie Rose