The 40 women Forbes 2021 - Forbes France Les 40 Femmes Forbes 2021

Like every year, Forbes France elected 40 remarkables that marked the year.Their areas of expertise are very varied, and go from science to sport, from arts to entrepreneurship via politics or the media.We present these talented and inspiring women who have been able to break the glass ceiling.

The 5 members of the jury

Marion Darrieutort

Marion Darrieutort is CEO of The Arcane Cabinet.She was previously CEO of the Elan Edelman Paris agency, international leader in Business and Communication Strategy Council.The entrepreneur is also a founding member of Tedxwomen.

Pascal Cagni

After having participated between 2000 and 2012 in the development of Apple as vice-president and managing director of the Europe region, Middle East, India and Africa, Pascal Cagni founded in 2014 the European investment fund in venture capital C4Ventures.He was appointed Ambassador Delegate for International Investments by Emmanuel Macron in 2017 and president of Business France.

Frédérique Bel

Habituée des comédies à succès, l’actrice Frédérique Bel a aussi joué des rôles sombres comme dans la série La Mante.Latest: What have we all done to the good Lord?, Who will be released on October 13, 2021.

Marc Simoncini

French tech entrepreneur, Marc Simoncini is one of the pioneers of the French Internet with the creation of companies like Ifrance, Meetic, Sensee and the Jaina Capital Investment Fund to his credit.He also developed a business Angel activity.

Dominique Busso

A media entrepreneur, Dominique Busso is CEO of Forbes France, which he launched in 2016 for the 100th anniversary of the American magazine.

The 40 women forbes 2021

Clarisse Agbegnenou • Age: 28 years • Profession: Olympic Judo Champion

Clarisse Agbegnenou is registered with the AMA club (Martial Arts d'Asnières) at the age of 9.Very quickly spotted, she entered the France pole in Orleans at 14.At just 28 years old, she now has the most beautiful list of French female judo, with four world champion titles (2014, 2017, 2018 and 2019), two silver medals in the world championship (2013 and 2015), five European titles (2013, 2014, 2018, 2019 and 2020) and an Olympic silver medal (2016).A real symbol of strength and perseverance.She is also, outside the tatamios, adjutant of the French national gendarmerie.

Hélène ANTIER •ÂGE : 34 ANS • PROFESSION : FONDATRICE & CEO DE LYV

Already co-founder of two start-ups, Hélène Antier has created a platform to support the 3 million people affected as it by endometriosis.As there is no remedy yet, she got to work to develop LYV, a dedicated application aimed at better understanding the effects, deepening her knowledge on the subject and following her pains and symptoms.It is with this trajectory in mind that the entrepreneur joined last October the Nantes accelerator Data Health Factory, before embarking on artificial intelligence applied in health of Paris-Descartes.

Fabienne Arata • Age: 55 years • Profession: Director of LinkedIn France

At the head of LinkedIn France since January 2017, Fabienne Arata aims to create engagement on the platform and to offer career development opportunities to French members.After her marketing studies at the SKEMA Business School, from 1985 to 1988, she joined the IBM Global Services France company, where she spent the following twelve years to pilot communication and internal development actions.A few years later, she created, directs and animates the first network of women at ManpowerGroup France, made up of 3,500 women.

Florence Aubenas • Age: 60 years • Profession: journalist and writer

Florence Aubenas is first a student at the European School of Brussels I in Uccle before performing two years of literary preparatory classes.She graduated from the journalists' training center in 1984 and made most of her career in the daily Liberation.In 2005, during a report in Iraq, it was retained hostage for five months.The following year, she left Liberation for Le Nouvel Observateur then joined the world from 2012.It covers for the latter the Syrian conflict on the side of the rebels of the free Syrian army.

Brigitte Autran • Age: 67 years • Profession: Professor in Immunology

Brigitte Autran conducts medical studies which lead her to the boarding school in Paris hospitals from 1978 to 1983.As such, in 1981 she was the first intern to be confronted with a patient with AIDS.Practitioner of the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital and university professor, she specializes in immunology, vaccine, immune deficit and transplantation.It is particularly known for its research work and its therapeutic vaccine which slows the progression of AIDS.

Kahina Bahloul • Age: 42 years old • Profession: Islamologist

Kahina Bahloul is a Franco-Algerian Islamologist of Sufi Tradition.A graduate of a Master 2 in Islamology at the Practical School of High Studies and a doctorate on the thought of Ibn Arabi, she becomes the first woman to declare herself in France in France.She is the co-founder of the La Mosque Fatima Mosque Association project, and the channel and the association "Parle moi d'Islam".She is also a speaker on Islamic subjects concerning interreligious dialogue, Sufism and women.

Magali Berdah • Age: 39 years old • Profession: Director of Shauna Events

After having been a saleswoman in the south of France, Magali Berdah becomes at 20 years old insurance broker and mutual.She tries to become independent but completely changes direction when she starts to frequent reality TV stations.In January 2017, she created the Shauna Events company, in order to meet the needs of reality TV personalities, by offering them to manage their partnerships in exchange for a regular salary.Its digital expertise is today requested by the government but also grandes écoles, brands or agencies.

Laurence Boone • Age: 52 years • Profession: economist

A graduate of Paris-Nanterre University (DEA of quantitative modeling and analysis), the London Business School (doctorate of economics) and the University of Reading (Master of Econometrics), Laurence Boone is a French economistspecialized in macro-economy, European policy and public finance.She is an economic advisor to the President of the Republic from July 2014 to March 2016, then became an OECD economist chief in July 2018.Currently professor at Sciences Po Paris, she also taught at the École Polytechnique, Ensae and École Normale Supérieure de Cachan.

Méka Brunel • Age: 65 years • Profession: Managing Director of Gecina

After high school, Méka Brunel obtained an engineering diploma in public works, at East PARIS, then an Executive MBA in HEC Paris.Hired in 1996 in the construction of the SIMCO company, which, after several mergers, was finally acquired by GECINA in 2003.In 2006, she was appointed Chairman of the Eurosic Management Board, then EUROPE Director of the Company Real Estate Trans-Québec, before being appointed Europe of Ivanhoé Cambridge in 2016.Administrator of Gecina since 2014, she joined the group as Director General in 2017.

Nathalie Collin • Age: 56 years • Profession: CEO of the digital branch of the La Poste group

Holder of a master's degree in business law and taxation (Paris II University) and ESSEC graduate in 1988, Nathalie Collin first became president of the Emi Music France group before becoming co -chair of the Liberation Board from 2009 to 2011.For three years, she was then director general of the Le Nouvel Observateur group, which she who in 2014 to become Deputy Director of the La Poste group.Responsible for both the digital and communication branch, she is also a member of the National Digital Council and Director of Geopost.

Clarisse Cremer • Age: 31 years • Profession: navigator

After professional beginnings in marketing, Clarisse Crémer decides to make sail, which until then was a simple hobby, a full-time activity.Aboard a mini class boat, she won in 2017 with Erwan Le Draoulec the Mini-Fastnet then, alone, wins Transgascogne.In 2019, she took the bar of the Imoca Banque Populaire X, with which she finished 12th in the Vendée Globe 2020-2021, signing the best female performance in the history of this race.At 31, she also holds the lonely monohull women's female record.

Stéphanie de Boüard-Rivoal • Age: 39 years old • Profession: CEO of Château Angelus

Eighth generation since 2012 at the head of the emblematic Château Angélus, Bordeaux wine estate Premier Grand Cru Classé A, Stéphanie de Boüard-Rivoal nourishes a visceral link to the Earth that saw her grow.Without losing sight of her work in the vines, she bought and inaugurates Gabriel, a restaurant located at Place de la Bourse in Bordeaux in 2020.With her chef, Alexandre Baumard, she also reopens the kitchens of the Logis de la Cadène in Saint-Émilion, kitchens through which her teams deliver 200 meals, twice a week, at the CHU de Bordeaux and Libourne.

Laurence des Cars • Age: 55 years • Profession: CEO of the Louvre Museum

Laurence des Cars follows art history studies at Paris IV-Sorbonne University and at the Louvre school, then joined the National Heritage School and took its first conservative position at the Musée d'Orsay en1994, where she remains until 2007.That same year, she was appointed scientific director of the France-Muséums agency and, in 2014, she became director of the Museum of Orangery.She also becomes president of the Orsay Museum in 2017.In 2021, Laurence des Cars was appointed president director of the Louvre museum, thus becoming the first woman to occupy this function.

Virginie Efira • Age: 44 years • Profession: actress

Television host in Belgium then in France from 1998 to 2008, Virginie Efira began her acting career in 2004.In the cinema, she is known as the headliner of romantic comedies, before taking a dramatic turn by playing the title role of the independent LM Victoria (2016) which earned her a third nomination for the César for best actress.Today, she is one of the "best paid actresses in 2021".She is also a member of the 50/50 collective which aims to promote gender equality and diversity in cinema and audiovisual.

Marie Ekeland • Age: 45 years • Profession: President of the National Digital Council

Marie Ekeland first studies mathematics and computer science at Paris-Dauphine University before entering the JPMorgan Chase business bank in New York as a computer scope in New York.After a sabbatical year and obtaining a master's degree and economic policy at the EHESS, it began the 2000s by working in the risk capital sector.She dedicates the next ten years to launch start-ups.In 2012, she co -founded the Digital France Lobby, and in 2015, Daphni, an investment fund specializing in the digital economy.At the end of 2017, she became the first woman president of the National Digital Council.

Delphine Ernotte • Age: 54 years • Profession: President of France Télévisions

After graduating at the Centrale Paris school in 1989, Delphine Ernotte made her whole career at France Telecom, where she occupied posts of financial analyst and then an economist engineer before joining management.Since August 22, 2015, she has been the president of France Télévisions, after being appointed by the Superior Council of Audiovisual (CSA).She was renewed in her duties on July 22, 2020, for a 5 -year term.That same year, in October, she was elected to the presidency of the European Radio-Television Union for taking office on January 1, 2021.

Mireille Faugère • Age: 64 years • Profession: President of the NGO Amref

A graduate of HEC Paris in 1978, Mireille Faugère joined the SNCF as soon as it left the school.Responsible for the development of the TGV Mediterranean network in 1987, she was appointed director of the Montparnasse station in 1991 and thus became the first woman to access this level of operational responsibility.In 2000, she launched the Voyages-SNCF site.com and successfully conducts the transformation of a technical company to a service company.From 2010 to 2013, Mireille Faugère took over the general management of the public assistance of hospitals in Paris and conducted teams on the path of modernization of the care offer.

Angeles Garcia-Poveda • Age: 50 years • Profession: President of the Legrand group

Freshly graduated from the Icade de Madrid (Spain), Angeles Garcia-Povedatravaille Fourteen years at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), both in Madrid and in Paris as a strategy consultant, then as a global recruitment manager.She then joined the American cabinet Spencer Stuart in 2008 where she occupied various responsibilities, including Director General France and director of the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.Since 2012, she has been sitting as an independent adminarator on the Legrand group council.She is appointed president of her in 2020.

Céline Guivarch • Age: 40 years • Profession: Climatologist

Céline Guivarch is a climatologist who models the impact of climate change from a multidisciplinary perspective based on the economy and mathematics.A graduate of the École Polytechnique and the National School of Ponts et Chaussées, she is now a member of the High Council for the Climate, research director at the ParisTech Ponts School and an author of the Sixth Report of the Group ofIntergovernmental experts on climate change.In 2003, she received the Louis Édouard Rivot Prize from the Academy of Sciences and, in 2020, the Irène Joliot-Curie Prix of the young scientific woman.

Claudie Haigneré • Age: 64 years • Profession: Astronaut

Today scientist, astronaut and politician, Claudie Haigneré obtains her baccalaureate at 15 years old.She exercised for eight years a medical activity at Cochin hospital before focusing on research in neurosensory physiology at the CNRS.After eleven years of selection, she became in 1996 the first French woman to be sent to space.She then held the position of Minister for Research and New Technologies in June 2002, and that of Minister for European Affairs in 2004 before becoming an adviser to the Director General of the European Space Agency in 2015.

Aurélie Jean • Age: 38 years old • Profession: Scientist

Aurélie Jean is a digital scientist and entrepreneur specializing in algorithms and digital modeling.She makes a physics and mechanical license before embarking on a doctorate in materials science and digital mechanics.After a first thesis in 2009, she continued her postdoctoral research and her training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at Pennsylvania State University where she works on the development of a more exhaleTo repair the sick tissues of the myocardium after a infarction.

Marie-Antoinette Katoto • Age: 22 years old • Profession: player of the French football team

Marie-Antoine E Katoto begins football in 2005 at the Colombes Female Football Club, club in her hometown.It then evolves first in defense, before being irreparably irreparably by the goal.At 12, she is spotted by Paris Saint-Germain and thus joined her training center.She goes through all the young French teams and wins with the U19 the 2016 European Championship in Slovakia, a tournament during which she is appointed best scorer in the competition.In 2018, she was called for the first time as a French A team and she made her international debut this same year.

Anne-Marie Lagrange • Age: 59 years • Profession: Astrophysicist

Anne-Marie Lagrange is an astrophysicist who has worked since 1990 at the Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics in Grenoble.She also worked for the National Institute of Sciences of the Universe and the CNRS.In parallel, it is part of several advice from institutions and scientific programs.Holder of numerous scientific prizes, she has been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 2013.His work focuses on the study of extrasolar planetary systems.She was promoted to officer of the Legion of Honor in 2012, and officer of the National Order of Merit in 2015.

Mélanie Laurent • Age: 38 years old • Profession: actress

Spotted by Gérard Depardieu in 1998, Mélanie Laurent began her acting career, and played in an LM presented at the Cannes Festival before he even had her baccalaureate in 2001.In 2006, she obtained the first female role in the drama I am well, do not make it of Philippe Liret.His performance earned him several nominations and awards including the Romy Schneider Prize and the César for best female hope.In 2011, once her career as a well -established actress, she began a singer career and released a first album.That same year, she released the first of her feature films as a director, adopted.

Lydie Lescarmontier • Age: 34 years old • Profession: Climatology researcher

After her first trip to the land Adélie at 23, Lydie Lescarmontier specializes in the study of the functioning of emissary glaciers in Antarctica.A graduate of a master's degree in oceanography and meteorology and a doctorate in glaciology, she worked at the CNRS as well as at the ANU in Australia is to better understand E and climate change on the Antarctic cap.She is today representative of young researchers at the CNFRA, scientific mediator at the Office for Climate Education and scientific manager in a climate change education foundation.

Sandrina Martins • Age: 50 years • Profession: Director General of the Temple Carreau

Sandrina Martins graduated from Paris Dauphine University and holder of a DEA of mutations in companies and cultures in Europe of the Institute of European Studies.After having participated in several artistic projects in Paris and Marseille, she is appointed co-director of the Temple Carreau, public establishment in the city of Paris, in 2015.She makes a point of honor in her management for a perfect parity in programming (as many artists, man as a woman).During the Covid crisis, she opened the doors of the Temple tile to put a welcome for homeless women.

Valérie Masson-Delmotte • Age: 49 years • Profession: Climatologist

Valérie Masson-Delmotte graduated from the Centrale Paris school in 1993.In 1996, she defended a doctoral thesis in fluid physics and transfers.Since 1997, paleoclimatologist has been a researcher at the Laboratory of Climate and Environment Sciences of the Atomic Energy Commission, of which she became the research director in 2008.His research focuses on the evolution of past climates and the impact of the future climate.Since 2015, she has been co -president of group number 1 of the IPCC.She is a member of the High Council for Climate, created in 2018 and placed with the French Prime Minister.

Fanny MOIZANT • Age: 44 years old • Profession: Founder of collective cloakroom

After ESC Reims, and a first experience in decoration, Fanny Moizant is part of IFM (French fashion institute) in 2008.Through a friend of her brother, she joined the following year the team of five co-founders of the collective cloakroom, a luxury deposit whose success is immediate and dazzling (10 million euros in figureBusiness from 2011).She then decides to expatriate to London, then to Hong Kong with her husband and their two daughters.At the beginning of 2021, she who was the board of directors of SMCP in order to focus on the development of a collective cloakroom.

Élisabeth Moreno • Age: 50 years • Profession: Minister for Women-Men equality

President of Hewlett -Packard Africa After being president France of Lenovo, Élisabeth Moreno is a Franco-Verdian business and politician leader and politician.After a literary baccalaureate and higher law studies, she begins in a legal firm before founding a building company with her husband in 1991.In 2002, she joined Dell as director of major accounts and stayed there for ten years.She obtains in parallel a master's degree in business administration at ESSEC.In 2020, she was appointed Minister Delegate for Women-Men Equality, Diversity and Equal Opportunities.

Delphine o • Age: 35 years • Profession: politics woman

Designated Ambassador of the Forum Generation Equality by Emmanuel Macron, Delphine O confirms her political power with a flawless commitment for parity and inclusion.It was only 33 years old that Delphine O was appointed to the Council of Ministers, Ambassador and Secretary General of the World Conference of the United Nations on women, who mobilizes, in particular, for equality of sexes.

Frédérique Penault-llorca • Age: 59 years • Profession: cancerologist

Frédérique Penault-Llorca graduated as a doctor specializing in pathology in 1993 and oncology in 1995.Still in 1995, she obtained a doctorate from the University of Aix-Marseille II in cellular biology and microbiology.Currently professor of pathology at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, but also Managing Director of the versatile regional Institute of Cancer-Center Jean Perrin and assistant director of the Inserm 1240 Imost research team, she conducted various research studies basedon biomarkers in cancers and has discovered unique treatment in the world of breast cancer.

Fanny Picard • Age: 52 years • Profession: President of Alter Equity

A graduate of a master's degree in the Sorbonne law, as well as ESSEC Business School, Fanny Picard is president of Alter Equity, a pioneering management company in impact investment that uses the investment as a tool forgeneral interest. Elle a commencé sa vie professionnelle au sein du département fusions & acquisitions de la banque d’a aires Rothschild & Cie avant de devenir, notamment, directrice des Opérations nancières de Wendel, ainsi que directeur du Développement (fusions & acquisitions) du groupe Danone pour l’Europe de l’Ouest et l’Amérique du Nord.

Apollonia Poilâne • Age: 37 years old • Profession: President of Poilâne

In 2002, at only 18, Apollonia Poilâne decided to take over the family business of bakery after the sudden death of her parents.Surrounded by her father's team and her sister Athena, she then studied four years at Harvard while holding the management of the company.Concerned about the image of the Poilâne brand, created in 1932 by its grandfather, it develops two related activities so that the brand does not age: Le Comptoir Poilâne, a small restaurant glued to the main bakery, and Petrin Poilâne Training, an internal training program.

Odile Renaud-Basso • Age: 56 years • Profession: President of the BERD

A graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies in 1987, the National School of Administration in 1990 (promotion Jean Monnet) and the Harvard Kennedy School ("Senior Management in Government") in 1993, Odile Renaud-Basso exercises several functions within the General Directorate of the Treasury following his studies.Her erts pay because she becomes the first woman named Director General of the Treasury in 2016.Following its replacement in 2020, it took the reins of the European Bank for reconstruction and development (BERD).

Wendie Renard • Age: 30 years • Profession: player of the French football team

Wendie Renard begins football at the age of 7 at the Préchotin boom in a team of boys.At the age of 15, she joined the overseas pole of the François high school and played at the weekend with the Rapid Club of Lorraine.Her physical and technical qualities are identified by Farid Betisti, coach of the Lyonnais Olympique team and she joined the Lyonnais training center in 2006.She won with her club fourteen French championships, nine French cups, a champion trophy as well as the Champions League seven times.She is considered to be one of the best players in the world.

Caroline Robert • Age: 59 years • Profession: Immunologist and dermatologist

Caroline Robert is a doctor and a researcher, innovative in research against melanomas.She studied medicine at Paris V University and clinical before leaving France to join the United States.She worked for three and a half years in a research laboratory at the Harvard Medical School and then presents her science thesis in immunology and immunotherapy at Paris-Sud University.Today head of the dermatology department of the Gustave Roussy Institute, she is recipient of the 2015 Inserm Research Prize for her work.

Elisa Rojas • Age: 42 years • Profession: Lawyer

Elisa Rojas arrived in Paris during her youth.With a disability because of an imperfect osteogenesis which forces her to move in a wheelchair, she fights and nevertheless begins with law studies, to the DESS Human Rights and International Humanitarian.She obtained a post at the Council of the Association of Lawyers in the defense of the appeals of the refugees to which a residence permit was refused.She then specializes in labor law and the rights of disabled people, and in particular co -bonds the collective struggle and disabilities for equality and emancipation (CLHEE).

Eva Sadoun • Age: 30 years • Profession: Co -president of Impact France

After studying mathematics at Paris-Nanterre University and a specialization in finance and able to socially impact at EM Lyon 2, Eva Sadoun enrolled in a license in philosophy at the Catholic Institute of Paris then graduated graduateESSEC.She then created an NGO in the field of education in Togo and works in a microfinance platform in India.Upon her return to France, she co -founded in 2014 Lita.CO, a company offering a social and environmental impact investment platform.Eva Sadoun is also co -chaired by the Impact France movement.

Stéfanie Stantcheva • Age: 35 years • Profession: economist

French economist, Stéfanie Stantcheva is professor of economics at Harvard University, and member of the Economic Analysis Council.She obtained a master's degree in economics and finance from the École Polytechnique in 2008 and a master's degree in economics from EHESS, ENSAE and the Paris School of Economy in 2009, before continuing with a doctorate in economics of the economyMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which she obtained in 2014.Winner of the Prize for Best Young Economist in France in 2019, her research focuses mainly on public finances, in particular optimal taxation issues.

Audrey Cherkoff • Age: 39 years old • Profession: President of Women’s Forum

Ten years ago, Audrey Tcherko, then holder of a master's degree in international relations, joined the positive foundation Planet created by Jacques Attali, a think tank whose specialty is to calculate positivity, that is to say thelong -term impact, action, investment or political decision.The movement leads to the creation of the Institute of the positive economy, of which it becomes president in 2018.39 years old today, she has just arrived at the head of Women’s Forum, an international influence platform.