Constance Benqué : Independent Director and Audit Committee member
Date of 1st appointment: April 29th, 2022
Constance Benqué, 62, after serving as a parliamentary assistant for the French Deputy, François d’Aubert, began a career in advertising at the Expansion Group in 1981, where she was quickly appointed Advertising Director (1983‑1990). This is followed by a position as Sales Director for the French business magazine, Capital for the Prisma Presse Group (1990‑94) and then Chief Executive Officer of Régie Obs, which at the time included the advertising departments of the publications Nouvel Observateur, Challenges and Sciences & Avenir (1994‑1994).
In 1999, she joined the Lagardère Group where she was successively appointed Vice President (1999‑2003) and President (2003‑2016) of Europe Régies, which subsequently became Lagardère Active Publicité. A member of the Lagardère Active Management Board since 2008, Constance Benqué was appointed in 2014 Chief Executive Officer of ELLE France & International (ELLE, ELLE Décoration, ELLE à Table, Art & Décoration; international licenses and Lagardère Active Enterprises).
Since December 2018, she has served as the CEO, then President (2020) of the Lagardère Group’s media activities (Lagardère News), which include the radio stations Europe 1, Virgin Radio, RFM, and the publications Paris Match, Le Journal du Dimanche and ELLE International.
She is a graduate of the University of Paris II Panthéon Assas (Master’s degree in Public Law) and of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (with an advanced degree in Marketing and Communication).
Current offices:
– Independent Director of Voyageur du Monde;
– Independent Director of Corsair;
– Independent Director and Member of the Supervisory Board of OUTRE-MER R-PLANE (SAS);
– Director of the Air France Foundation.
Offices having expired in the last five years:
– Independent Director of Belvédère (Marie Brizard);
– President of Lagardère Active Corporate;
– President of Elle International;
– President of Lagardère Publicité News.
Term of office expiring at the close of the Annual General Meeting in 2026.