Christel Heydemann has been Chief Executive Officer of the Orange Group since April 4th, 2022.

She graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique (France, 1994) and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and began her career in 1997 at Boston Consulting Group. In 1999, she joined Alcatel where she was entrusted with a range of roles and responsibilities, specifically in the context of the merger of Alcatel and Lucent.

In 2008, she was appointed to Alcatel-Lucent’s Executive Committee as Sales Director for France and promoted in 2011 as Director of Human Resources and Transformation.

In 2014, Christel Heydemann joined Schneider Electric as the Director of Strategic Alliances before being appointed as Senior Vice President Corporate Strategy & Alliances in 2016. In April 2017 she becomes Executive Vice President of Schneider Electric France and subsequently Executive Vice President Europe Operations in May 2021. She was also a member of the Executive Committee of Schneider Electric.

Christel Heydemann has been a member of the Board of Directors of Orange Group since 2017.