Laurence Boone

Laurence Boone is Head of Corporate and Investment Banking France and Ireland at Santander. She has an extensive track record in both the private and public sectors, with a solid background in economics.

She served as Minister of State for European Affairs for the French Republic from 2022 to 2024. Previously, she held the position of Chief Economist and Deputy Secretary General at the OECD from 2018 to 2022. In 2016, she joined AXA Group as Chief Economist, Global Head of Multi Asset Client Solutions and Head of Research until 2018. From 2014 to 2016, she was Special Adviser to French President François Hollande on Economic and Financial Affairs. Prior to that, she served as Adviser to the Board of Economists of the French Prime Minister from 2012 to 2014. In 2011 she joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch as Head of European Economic Research until 2014. From 2004 to 2011, she acted as Chief Economist at Barclays Capital.

She was a member of Kering's Board of Directors from 2010 to 2014 and 2016 to 2018. She is on the Board of Institut Montaigne. She is a member of the Cercle des économistes, is an Adjunct Professor at the European University Institute and has taught at École Polytechnique, ENSAE, Sciences Po Paris, and the École normale supérieure.

Boone holds a PhD in Econometrics from the London Business School.