How did the daughter of a construction contractor with no connections, who grew up in a rural area of south-western France surrounded by cows, ever ...
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Marie Françoise Marie-Nelly
The unwavering optimist
Marie Françoise Marie-Nelly’s life is showered with a series of events that, in hindsight, could be good premonitions.
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Beauty Manake
Botswana’s first female minister of agriculture
It took 6 months to pin her down for a promised interview, but given our subject’s status, we knew that we had to be patient ...
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Sun Ping is adamant that setting oneself a strict framework of rules is the key to a successful career and a harmonious life.
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Fulgence Ouedraogo
Captain Courage
Fulgence Ouedraogo is the tireless tackler and captain of the iconic Montpellier Hérault Rugby Club, in the South West of France.
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Didier Gaffinel
A steadfast rise through the ranks
In 2022, Didier Gaffinel celebrates 30 years of service at Crédit Agricole. After 16 years of investment banking and its notoriously strenuous regime, he later ...
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Tifenn Dano Kwan has led world-class marketing strategies for some of the largest SaaS organisations, and anyone reading her LinkedIn profile will recognise that she ...
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Boris Couilleau
Pioneering democratic and inclusive business practices
Boris Couilleau’s first years after graduation were not plain sailing: within half a decade, he’d experienced the consequences of a ruinous investment, a series of ...
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François-Xavier Roger
Seizing opportunities as they come along
A truly international executive, Francois Roger has lived on four continents. He learnt the ropes of high finance by joining pharmaceutical company Roussel Uclaf as ...
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