Editing Orange Group (section)

==Governance==

===Overview of governance===
Governance of the Orange group is centered in its board of directors, executive committee and three committees that steer Orange's strategy:<ref name="Comités stratégies Orange" />
*Audit Committee: Created in 1997, the Audit Committee comprises three members appointed for indefinite terms by the board of directors on the recommendation of the Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility Committee.
*Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility Committee: Created in 2010, it comprises at least three members appointed by the board of directors on the recommendation of its chairman. Its remit is to examine the main risks and opportunities in relation with the environment, Orange's policies concerning industrial, the publication of societal and environmental information, and the main orientations of its corporate social responsibility policy.
*Strategy Committee: Created in 2003, the Strategy Committee comprises at least three members appointed by the board of directors on the recommendation of its chairman. The latter chairs the committee. It examines the group's international development strategic and the strategic mid-term guidelines.

===Chairmen===
*2005: [[Didier Lombard]]
*2010-2021: [[Stéphane Richard]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.todayonline.com/world/orange-replace-ceo-richard-jan-31|title=Orange to replace CEO Richard by Jan. 31|access-date=10 December 2021|archive-date=10 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210094043/https://www.todayonline.com/world/orange-replace-ceo-richard-jan-31|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Chief executive officers===
The company is headed either by the chairman of the board of directors, whose title in that case is the chairman and chief executive officer, or by another person appointed by the board of directors and given the title of chief executive officer.

===Board of directors===
The Orange group is governed by a board of directors composed of a minimum of twelve members and a maximum of twenty-two members, divided as follows: three are appointed by the French State, three are elected by the employees, one is elected by the shareholders and represents employee shareholders, the fifteen other members are appointed by the shareholders. The board members serve for a term of four years. In 2011, the board of directors was composed of 15 members:<ref name="composition conseil administration" />
{| class="wikitable sortable centre"
|-
! Name !! Position
|-
|	Christel Heydemann || Chairman and chief executive officer
|-
|Luc Marino
|Director representing employee shareholders
|-
|Sébastien Crozier
|Director representing the employees
|-
|Fabrice Jolys
|Director representing the employees
|-
|René Ollier
|Director representing the employees
|-
|[[Alexandre Bompard]]|| Independent director
|-
|Christel Heydemann|| Independent director
|-
|Charles-Henri Filippi|| Independent director
|-
|Bernard Ramanantsoa
|Independent director
|-
|Helle Kristoffersen
|Independent director
|-
|Mouna Sepehri
|Independent director
|-
| Jean-Michel Severino || Independent member
|-
| Lucie Muniesa || Director representing the public sector (French State)
|-
| Anne Lange || Director representing the public sector (French State)
|-
| Bpifrance Participations (representative) || Director representing the public sector (French State)
|}

===Executive committee===
The executive committee reports to the chairman and CEO. Its purpose is to coordinate the implementation of Orange's strategic orientations and to oversee the achievement of operational, social, technical and financial resource allocation objectives. It comprises fifteen members.
{| class="wikitable centre"
|-
! Name !! Title
|-
|Stéphane Richard|| Chairman and chief executive officer
|-
|Ramon Fernandez|| Delegate Chief Executive Officer, Finance, Performance and Europe
|-
|Gervais Pellissier|| Delegate Chief Executive Officer, Group Transformation and Chairman of Orange Business Services
|-
|Fabienne Dulac|| Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Chief Executive Director of Orange France
|-
|Mari-Noëlle Jégo-Laveissière|| Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer
|-
|Laurent Paillassot|| Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Chief Executive Officer of Orange Spain
|-
|Christine Albanel|| Senior Executive Vice-President of CSR, Diversity, Partnerships and Philanthropy, Deputy Chair of the Orange Foundation
|-
|Jérôme Barré|| Chief Executive Officer of Wholesale and International Networks
|-
|Hugues Foulon|| Executive Director of Strategy and Cybersecurity activities
|-
|Nicolas Guérin|| Secretary General, Secretary of the Board of Directors
|-
|Valérie Le Boulanger|| Executive Director in charge of Human Resources
|-
|Béatrice Mandine|| Executive Director Communications and Brand
|-
|Alioune Ndiaye|| Chief Executive Officer of Orange Middle East and Africa
|-
|Helmut Reisinger|| Chief Executive Officer of Orange Business Services
|-
|Paul de Leusse|| Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Orange for mobile financial services, and Chief Executive Officer of Orange Bank
|}

===Head office===
[[File:France-Telecom HQ.jpg|thumb|Orange's former head office in Paris at 6, Place d'Alleray.]]
Orange's head office, since 2012, is based at 78, Rue Olivier de Serres in the [[15th arrondissement of Paris]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://orange.com/en/Footer/Bas-de-footer/legal-matters |title=Legal matters |publisher=Orange |access-date=7 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909062938/http://www.orange.com/en/Footer/Bas-de-footer/legal-matters |archive-date=9 September 2013 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

The company's former head office was based at 6, Place d'Alleray in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.orange.com/en_EN/tools/legal/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529214628/http://www.orange.com/en_EN/tools/legal/index.html |title=Legal matters |publisher=France Télécom |archive-date=29 May 2012 |access-date=7 August 2013 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> The building was the head office from 1998 until 2012. Eight hundred employees worked at the site.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.journaldunet.com/economie/reportage/les-sieges-sociaux-des-entreprises-du-cac-40/france-telecom-un-legs-de-l-administration.shtml |title=France Télécom : un legs de l'administration |language=fr |publisher=Le Journal du Net |date=27 June 2007 |access-date=8 July 2010}}</ref>