Philippe VARIN started his career in 1978. He held various R&D, Plant and Business Unit Management roles at Péchiney in France and the USA and he was the Group Executive Vice President for the Aluminum sector when he left Péchiney to become the CEO of the Anglo Dutch steel conglomerate Corus in 2003. The Corus turnaround ended with its acquisition by the Indian Group Tata in 2007. Philippe Varin remained two years with Tata, in Mumbai and in London, and he then moved to the French car making group Peugeot Citroen where he was Chairman of the Managing Board between 2009 and 2014. Since 2012, he chairs the "Cercle de l'Industrie". Since 2014 he is the Special Representative of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs to the ASEAN countries. He is also the Chairman of the utility company Areva and sits on the board of EDF and Saint Gobain. Philippe graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris.