Jacques Beyssade

Jacques Beyssade has been the Secretary General of Groupe BPCE, the largest non-listed cooperative banking group in Europe, counting 100,000 employees and 35 million customers, since 2018. As such, he is in charge of Legal and Public Affairs, Corporate Governance, Compliance, Security and Permanent Control. He draws his experience from the banking businesses he has been in charge of, over 30 years and on 3 continents, through cycles of boom and bust. A recognised banking expert, he has been a foreign trade advisor to the French government for 20 years. He coauthored with the French economist Cristina Peicuti "Of Banks and Crises", published in 2024 and contributed to "The legacy of the Global Financial Crisis" published in 2021.