The Executive Committee, under the responsibility of the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is the decision-making body for the management of TotalEnergies' businesses. A second instance, the Company Performance Management Committee, has in mission to examine, analyze and monitor the HSE, financial and operational results of the Company.
The Executive Committee
The Executive Committee implements the strategic orientations defined by the Board of Directors and authorizes related investments, subject to the approval of the Board of Directors for amounts exceeding 3% of shareholders' equity or notification of the Board for investments exceeding 1% of shareholders' equity.
It meets as often as necessary and generally on a fortnightly basis.
Members of the Executive Committee(1)
Born on June 24, 1963 (French).
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
Director since the Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting on May 29, 2015.
Last reappointment: the Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting on May 24, 2024 until 2027.
Chairman of the Strategy & CSR Committee.
Main function: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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Born on November 5th, 1978 (French).
Member of Executive Committee since January 8, 2024.
Aurélien Hamelle has been President for Strategy & Sustainability and member of the Executive Committee of TotalEnergies, the French major integrated energy company, since January 2024. Before taking up this position, he was General Counsel and Senior Vice President for Acquisitions & Disposals of TotalEnergies. He started his career as a regulatory and dispute resolution lawyer with various firms, including Allen & Overy as a partner in their Paris office.
As President for Strategy & Sustainability, Aurélien Hamelle oversees several corporate divisions of the Company (strategy and markets, sustainability and climate, government affairs, HSE, internal control and audit, legal).
He is a member of various professional associations or academic bodies, such as the Haut Comité Juridique de la place financière de Paris (HCJP – High committee of the Paris financial place) and the Club des Juristes. He has been a member of the sanctions’ panel of the French Financial Markets Authority since September 2021. He has been involved in academia as an assistant teacher in law and global governance in various institutions, namely at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences-Po) where he sits on the strategic committee of Sciences-Po’s law school.
Aurélien Hamelle holds a Master’s degree in political and international studies from Sciences-Po Paris and graduate degrees in law and management from the Universities Paris-Nanterre and Paris-Dauphine (PSL).
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Born on April 13, 1964 (French and Danish)
Member of Executive Committee since August 19, 2019.
Helle Kristoffersen is President Asia, based in Tokyo, member of the Executive Committee.
She was President Strategy & Sustainability from 2021 to January 2024, President Strategy & Innovation from 2019 to 2021, SVP Strategy and Corporate Affairs in Gas Renewables & Power from 2016 to 2019 and SVP Strategy & Business Intelligence from January 2012 to September 2016, deputy SVP Strategy from 2011 to 2012 within the Company she joined in 2011. Between 1994 and 2011, she held a number of general management positions within the Alcatel group, which became Alcatel-Lucent, and then Nokia.
A dual Danish and French national, Helle Kristoffersen is a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) and the Paris Graduate School of Economics, Statistics and Finance (ENSAE). She also holds a master's degree in econometrics from Université Paris Sorbonne. She is an alumna of the French Institute for Higher National Defense Studies (IHEDN) and a Knight of the French Legion of Honor.
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Born on February 17, 1973, (French).
Member of the Executive Committee since March 1, 2021.
A graduate of École Polytechnique (1994) and École des Mines in Paris (1997), Stéphane Michel is Chief Engineer of the France's Corps des Mines.
After serving as Energy Advisor to the French Finance Minister (2002-2004), Stéphane Michel joined the Company in 2005, working as Business Development Manager for the Downstream Asia division, based in Singapore.
In 2008, Stéphane Michel, is appointed TotalEnergies E&P Qatar JV Business Development Manager and in 2010 Managing Director of TotalEnergies E&P Libya. In 2011, he became TotalEnergies E&P Qatar Managing Director and on April 1, 2014, the E&P Senior Vice President Middle East/North Africa and a Member of the Management Committee of the Exploration & Production segment.
On March 1, 2021, Stéphane Michel is appointed President of Gas, Renewables and Power segment and a member of the Executive Committee.
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Born on June 5, 1962 (French).
Member of Executive Committee since September 1, 2016.
Bernard Pinatel is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and the Institut d’Études Politiques (IEP) de Paris and has an MBA from the Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires (INSEAD). He is also a statistician-economist (École Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Économique – ENSAE).
Bernard Pinatel started his career at Booz Allen & Hamilton, before joining TotalEnergies in 1991, where he held various operational positions in production plants and the headquarter of different subsidiaries, including Hutchinson. He became CEO France, and then CEO Europe of Bostik between 2000 and 2006, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cray Valley from 2006 to 2009.
In 2010, he became the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bostik. He became a member of the Company’s Management Committee in 2011 and a member of the Management Committee of Refining & Chemicals fin 2012.
In 2015, following the acquisition of Bostik by Arkema, Bernard Pinatel joined Arkema’s Executive Committee as Executive Vice President of the High-Performance Materials segment.
In September 2016, he was appointed President of the Refining & Chemicals segment at TotalEnergies and a member of the Executive Committee.
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Born on October 28, 1965 (French)
Member of Executive Committee since August 1, 2019.
Jean-Pierre Sbraire began his career at TotalEnergies in 1990 in the Trading & Shipping Division. In 1995, he joined Exploration & Production, holding various positions in Paris and Nigeria in finance, economics and business development.
In 2005, he was appointed General Secretary and Finance Manager for TotalEnergies in Venezuela. In 2009, within the Company’s Financial Division, he became Senior Vice President, E&P Subsidiaries Financial Operations.
In 2012, he was appointed Vice President, Equity Crude Acquisitions in Trading & Shipping. From September 2016 to September 2017, he served as Company’s Treasurer. He then accepted the position of Deputy Chief Financial Officer. In 2019, he was appointed Chief Financial Officer and Executive Committee member.
Mr. Sbraire is a graduate of ENSTA ParisTech engineering school and has a master’s degree from IFP School.
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Born on August 21, 1968 (French).
Member of Executive Committee since September 1, 2016.
Namita Shah began her career as an Associate Attorney at Shearman & Sterling, a New York-based law firm, where she spent eight years providing advice and supervising transactions including those involving financings of pipeline and power plant companies.
She joined TotalEnergies in 2002 as a Legal Counsel in the E&P mergers and acquisitions team. In 2008, she joined the New Business team, where she was responsible for business development in Australia and Malaysia. She held this position until 2011 when she moved to Yangon as General Manager, TotalEnergies EP Myanmar.
On July 1, 2014, she was appointed Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Exploration & Production.
On July 1, 2016, Namita Shah was appointed President, People & Social Responsibility and a member of the Executive Committee.
On September 1, 2021, she was appointed President, OneTech and member of the Executive Committee. She continues to supervise the Company People & Social Engagement team, which reports to her.
Indian and French, Namita Shah is a graduate of Delhi University and the New York University of Law.
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Born on May 15, 1974 (Belgium).
Membre du Comité exécutif depuis le 1er septembre 2024.
Mr. Stoquart graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. He also holds a Diploma Course in Aeronautics and Aerospace from the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics. Vincent Stoquart is Senior Vice President Renewables at TotalEnergies S.E. since 2021.
From 2019 to 2021, he served as Senior Vice President Refining and Petrochemicals Americas. He was during this period also the country chair for TotalEnergies in the United States, based in Houston, Texas.
Prior to that, Mr. Stoquart was Senior Vice President Polymers of TotalEnergies Refining & Chemicals.
From 2012 to 2017, he was Plant Manager of the Flanders site in Dunkirk, France, before joining TotalEnergies Global Services where he became President of TotalEnergies Learning Solutions.
Vincent Stoquart began his career with TotalEnergies in 1998 as an engineering project manager at the Feluy Polymers Plant in Belgium, working as a production manager in various positions from 2002 to 2009 before being appointed as human resources and communications manager of the Feluy Plant in 2010.
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Born on September 9, 1969 (French)
Member of Executive Committee since September 1, 2021.
Nicolas Terraz started his career in the French Ministries of Industry (1994-1997) and Public Works and Transportation (1997-2001) and joined TotalEnergies in 2001.
After holding positions in France and in Qatar, Nicolas Terraz served as Managing Director of Total E&P Myanmar (2008-2011), Managing Director of Total E&P France (2011-2014), Vice President New Ventures for Exploration and Production (2014-2015) and Managing Director of Total Upstream Companies in Nigeria (2015-2019).
In 2019, Nicolas Terraz was appointed Senior Vice President Africa and a member of the management committee of the Exploration & Production segment of TotalEnergies.
Born in 1969, Nicolas Terraz is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and earned a Master of Science in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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