Overview

Gender

female

Elisabeth Ardaillon Poirier is the SVP, Global Corporate Communications & CSR at Publicis Groupe.

She is also an Adviser to the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, after being the ECB's Director Communications for over nine years and Chairman of the External Communications Committee of the network comprised of the 27 central banks in the European System of Central Banks and the 17 central banks of the Euro Zone (2003-2012).

Prior to that she was notably Special Adviser (Press and parliament) to the private office of Minister Jean-François Deniau (1978-1981) .

Director of Development with the Bernard Krief Consulting Group (1981-1983) .

Head of Corporate Communications at the St. Gobain group (1983-1986) .

Hachette Multimedia Group (1986-1993), with special emphasis on international operations.

She subsequently became the first Managing Director of the Hachette Foundation which was later renamed Fondation Jean-Luc Lagardère (1989-1993) .

When the Economic and Monetary Union came into force, she was appointed Director Communications of the Banque de France (1994-2003) .

Member of the ECB's External Communications Committee (1998-2003) .

She is a Graduate of Centre d'Etudes Littéraires & Scientifiques Appliquées-CELSA (Advanced School of Information and Communication Sciences) .

She holds a Masters' Degree in Arts and English from the Sorbonne.

Her awards include France's Officier de la Légion d'Honneur and Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite.