Philippe Sauquet

Biography

Philippe Sauquet is a graduate of France's École Polytechnique and École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées engineering schools and of the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Philippe Sauquet began his career in 1981 as a civil engineer at the French Ministry of Infrastructure. He subsequently worked at the French Ministry of the Economy and Finance. He joined chemical company Orkem in 1988 as Vice President, Strategy before being appointed Senior Vice President, Acrylics Sales & Marketing. He moved to Total in 1990 as Vice President, Anti-Corrosion Paints and was subsequently named Vice President, Chemicals Strategy. In 1997, Philippe Sauquet transferred to the Gas & Power Division, where he was successively Vice President, Americas; Vice President, International; Senior Vice President, Strategy & Renewables; and Senior Vice President, Trading & Marketing, Gas & Power, based in London. He was appointed President of Gas & Power on July 1, 2012, in which capacity he also sat on the Group Management Committee. On October 29, 2014, Philippe Sauquet was named President, Refining & Chemicals and joined Totals' Executive Committee. On April 15, 2016, he was also appointed Interim President, New Energies. On September 1, 2016, he was appointed President of the newly created Gas, Renewables & Power branch. He is also appointed President, Strategy-Innovation and member of Total's Executive Committee.

Research Interest

Strategy-Innovation