Thierry d’ArgentCEO, SG London Branch and Group Chief Country Officer, UK and Ireland, Societe Generale,

Thierry d’Argent was appointed as the CEO of SG London Branch* and Chief Country Officer for SG in the UK & Ireland* in May 2023. Thierry is a member Executive Committee of Société Générale’s Global Banking and Investor Solutions division; he is also a member of the Group’s Management Board. 

Thierry was previously Société Générale’s Global Head of Coverage and Investment Banking; he was also Deputy Head of the Global Banking and Advisory business unit. In this role, he has advised some of the largest corporations and financial institutions across Europe, Asia, Latin America and the United States. Thierry joined SG in Paris in early 2009 as Managing Director, Mergers & Acquisitions; in 2010, he was appointed Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions; in 2012, he added responsibility for Equity Capital Markets, forming Corporate Finance. In 2015, he was appointed to the Group Management Board, and in early 2016 as Head of Coverage and Investment Banking. In 2019, he became Deputy Head of Global Banking and Advisory. 

Thierry started his career as a management consultant with Oliver Wyman in London in 1989; he then served as deputy Cabinet Director in the Brussels Federal Government between 1991 and 1992; he worked with Baring Brothers (subsequently ING Barings) in Paris between 1992 and 1998. In late 1998, Thierry joined J.P. Morgan, as an M&A practitioner, where he became a Managing Director in 2001, in charge of their Investment Banking practice in France. 

Thierry is a supervisory board member of Le Palais Royal, L’Académie de Musique de Paris and serves on the advisory board of the French-German Economic Council. He served for 4 years on an Advisory Commission of France’s Autorité des Marchés Financiers (Commission Opérations et Emetteurs).