Benoît Potier

Benoît Potier is a French businessman who spent his whole executive career at Air Liquide, the French multinational industrial gas company. He graduated as an engineer from École Centrale Paris in 1979, also attended the Wharton International Forum executive program and the INSEAD Advanced Management program, and joined Air Liquide in 1981 as a research and development engineer. He moved through project management, energy development in the large industries line and strategy and organization, was made an executive vice-president in 1995 and senior executive vice-president in 1997, joined the board in 2000 and became chairman of the management board in November 2001. He was chairman and chief executive officer of the company from 2006 to 2022 and has been chairman of its board of directors since 1 June 2022. He also sits on the supervisory board of Siemens and the board of Unilever, and is vice-chairman of the European Roundtable of Industrialists.