EDF Group appoints Simone Rossi to its Board of Directors as Executive Director in charge of creating the International Direction

– FRANCE, Paris – Simone Rossi, 46, has just been entrusted with the creation of the future International Direction of the EDF Group. Since 2011, he had been Chief Financial Officer of EDF Energy in London. In November 2009, he had joined Constellation Energy Nuclear Group in Baltimore (USA) as Chief Financial Officer, after five years with Edison as Head of Strategy, and later on as Director of Planning, Control and IT.

Simone Rossi had previously worked for two consulting firms: KPMG Corporate Finance and McKinsey&co in Milan where he served various Financial Institutions, Industrial and Energy clients. He started his career in 1993 in the Treasury Department of De Agostini in Novara (Italy).

Simone Rossi has a Degree in Business Administration from Bocconi University, Milan.

About EDF group

The EDF group, one of the leaders in the European energy market, is an integrated energy company active in all areas of the business: generation, transmission, distribution, energy supply and trading. The Group is the leading electricity producer in Europe. In France, it has mainly nuclear and hydraulic production facilities where 95.9% of the electricity output is CO2-free. EDF’s transmission and distribution subsidiaries in France operate 1,285,000 km of low and medium voltage overhead and underground electricity lines and around 100,000 km of high and very high voltage networks. The Group is involved in supplying energy and services to approximately 28.5 million customers in France. The Group generated consolidated sales of € 75.6 billion in 2013, of which 46.8% was achieved outside of France. EDF is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange and is a member of the CAC 40 index.

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