A graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA), Philippe Lagayette has managed JPMorgan’s activities in France since July 1998.

 

He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan et Cie SA, the French subsidiary of the JPMorgan Chase NA group.

He began his career as a tax inspector for the Inspection Générale des Finances (1970).

In 1974, he joined the Treasury department of the Minister of the Economy and Finance, and was appointed deputy director of that department in 1980.

 

He became the cabinet director of the Minister of the Economy and Finance in 1981, then joined the Banque de France in 1984 as deputy governor.

 

Appointed CEO of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations in 1992, he occupied this position until December 1997.

 

Philippe Lagayette is also President of the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, specialised in mathematics and theoretical physics research, and President of the French American Foundation, French committee.

Philippe Lagayette is an officer of the Légion d’Honneur and a Commander of the Ordre National du Mérite.