Christophe de Margerie built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.
The record lists Christophe de Margerie as French businessman, CEO of Total S.A. from 2007 to his death in 2014.
Christophe de Margerie was born at Mareuil-sur-Lay-Dissais in 1951. His recorded nationality is France. He was educated at ESCP Business School.
Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.
He worked as industrialist, entrepreneur and business executive.
Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.
Recognition followed: Officer of the Legion of Honour (2014), Order of Honour and Knight of the National Order of Merit (1996).
That the business was built from France shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Christophe de Margerie died in 2014, aged 63. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Officer of the Legion of Honour — 2014
- Order of Honour
- Knight of the National Order of Merit — 1996
- Educated at ESCP Business School
