Oudéa-Castéra’s close friend, “independent administrator” of Société Générale, then husband of the minister – led by Libération

Since 2017 and in front of 80,000 to 90,000 euros per year, Lubomira Rochet, a childhood friend of the minister, sits on the board of directors of the bank, whose general director, until last year, was other than AOC’s husband.

Nomination Chance or Cronyism? For seven years, Société Générale’s board of directors, led by Frédéric Odea, husband of the Minister of National Education, Sports and Olympic Games, harbored potential conflicts of interest.

One of the bank’s “independent directors” – the Franco-Bulgarian Lubomira Rochet – is in fact one of Amélie Ode-Castera’s closest friends. However, according to the Afep-Medef Code, independent director status is required, “No relationship of any kind with the company, its group or its management.”

Digital director and member of L’Oreal’s executive committee from 2014 to 2021 (a profile similar to that occupied by Oudéa-Castéra in Axa and Carrefour), Lubomira Rochet is today a partner at Jab, and American Cosmetics Group Coty on the Board of Administration. But, therefore, “independent director” of Société Générale since 2017, serving in this capacity on the Board of Directors and CONOM (Nomination and Corporate Governance Committee). This mandate, which earned him 80,000 euros as remuneration in 2020 and 9