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Jean Lanier has been a member of the Board and the Audit Committee since 2005. His term as a member of the Board expires at the AGM in 2008. The Board has determined him to be independent under the Group’s independence standards.Jean Lanier is the former Chairman of the Managing Board and Group Chief Executive Officer of Euler Hermes, Paris. He also chaired the Boards of the principal subsidiaries of the group. He held these functions from 1998 until 2004. Prior to that, he was the Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of SFAC, which later become Euler Hermes SFAC (from 1990 to 1997), and of Euler Group (from 1996 to 1998). Mr. Lanier started his career at the Paribas Group in 1970, where he worked until 1983 and held among others the functions of Senior Vice President of Paribas Group Finance division and Senior Executive for North America of the Paribas Group in New York. In 1983, he joined the Pargesa Group, where he held the positions of President of Lambert Brussells Capital Corporation in New York from 1983 to 1989 and Managing Director of Pargesa based in Paris and Geneva from 1988 to 1990.Jean Lanier holds a Masters of Engineering from the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris (1969) and a Masters of Sciences from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (1970).Mr. Lanier is a member of the Boards of Winterthur Swiss Insurance Company and Winterthur Life (since 2005) and of France Essor (since 1991). He is a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in France and Chairman of the Foundation "Les Amis de l’Arche." | 