French citizen
Date of birth: 7 September 1977

Maud Fontenoy is a yachtswoman, known for her multiple accomplishments and firsts for women in solo navigation, both in rowing and sailing. She is an Ambassador to the French Education and Youth Ministry, dedicated to ocean and coastline conservation and coastal school trips. President of the Maud Fontenoy Foundation, former Spokesperson for UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, an expert in sustainable development, a lecturer, and an author of books and documentaries devoted to the oceans and conservation. Maud is committed to the fight for environmental protection, and particularly to the protection of oceans and coastlines. Her objective for more than 20 years has been to inform as many people as possible about the need to protect the planet and to hand down values to the younger generation and give them a straightforward “user’s manual” so that sustainable development can become part of everyone’s daily life and ecology can go hand in hand with the economy. Maud Fontenoy currently advises a number of companies on these issues and advocates a realistic and pragmatic approach to ecology. In 2007, she was named Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Mérite and Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite maritime, and in January 2024 she was named Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur.

In the context of the Vivendi SE spin-off, Maud Fontenoy was named Independent Director of Louis Hachette Group on 9 December 2024.

Directorships and other positions held in other companies:

In France:

• Member of the Supervisory Board, Vivendi SE (listed company)
• President of Miss Maud
• Chairwoman of the Board of Directors, Fondation Maud Fontenoy
• Founder and member of the Board of Directors of the Fondation pour la Gastronomie Humaniste d’Alain Ducasse

Outside France:

• None