Claude Imauven re-appointed as Orano Group’s Chairman of the Board of Directors

Orano hereby announces the appointment of Claude Imauven as Chairman of the Group's Board of Directors, by decree of the President of the French Republic of May 06, 2026.

The renewal of Claude Imauven's mandate was proposed by the Group's Board of Directors on April 30. It follows his hearing before the economic affairs committees of the National Assembly and the Senate.

Claude Imauven, who was appointed as Orano’s Chairman of the Board of Directors on May 14, 2020 and re-appointed on April 28, 2022, said: "I am very honored to have been re-appointed as Chairman of Orano’s Board of Directors and extend my warmest thanks to the Board for its renewed confidence.

In a particularly sensitive energy, climate and geopolitical context, nuclear is asserting itself as an essential industrial response providing the leverage to address challenges of security of supply, competitiveness, and decarbonization. This is why I am particularly proud to continue with the mission entrusted to me in 2020 at the heart of a group which counts industrial and technological expertise, and collective commitment among its major assets.

I will thus continue to strive to carry out this mission with unwavering commitment and determination. Along with the entire Board of Directors, I will attentively oversee the definition of the Group's strategy and monitor its implemntation with a view to keeping it on a path of consolidated and sustainable growth."

Claude Imauven is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique and is an "Ingénieur au corps des mines" (state industrial engineer). He began his career in 1983 at the French Ministry of Industry and went on to hold several management positions in public administration, on the staff of several Ministries 'namely Foreign Trade and Industry). His career at Saint-Gobain began in 1993 within the Flat Glass Division, where he became successively Vice-President of Industrial Policy then VP Industry and Finance. In 1996, he was appointed General Delegate for Spain, Portugal and Morocco. Returning to France in 1999, he joined the Pipe Division as Chief Operating Officer of Pont-à-Mousson SA. In 2001, he became Chairman & CEO of that company and President of the Pipe Division. In April 2004, Imauven was appointed Senior Vice-President of Saint-Gobain and President of the Construction Products Sector. In 2016, he became Chief Operating Officer of the Saint-Gobain Group, a position he held until 2019. He has been a director at the Orano Group since it was restructured in July 2017.