Organization Structure Changes - International

Société Générale

Paris, London 18 December, 2007

Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking: appointment at the helm of market activities

Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking makes two appointments in the
management of its market activities.

Christophe Mianné, will head all of the corporate & investment bank market activities in the framework of his position as deputy to Jean-Pierre Mustier, Chief Executive Officer of Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking.

With these new responsibilities, Christophe will supervise both the Global Equities &
Derivatives Solutions division, and the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities division.

He will thus foster the sharing of expertise and the creation of greater synergies across activities, in particular in the areas of risk management and financial engineering.

Luc François, previously co-head of the Global Equities & Derivatives Solutions division with Christophe Mianné, will take full responsibility for that division.

Biographies
Christophe Mianné
Christophe joined Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking in 1988 in the sales department of the derivatives group and was later the Head of Financial Engineering until 1992 when he was appointed Head of Sales & Marketing for Equity Derivatives. In 1996 he became Deputy Head of the division and was appointed Global Head of Equity Derivatives in 1999. In January 2007, Christophe Mianné was named Deputy Chief Executive of Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking and co-head of Global Equities & Derivatives Solutions. He has been a member of the Group Management Committee of Societe Generale since July 2001 and is also the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Lyxor Asset Management. Christophe is a graduate of the Ecole Centrale de Paris.

Luc Francois
Luc has been with Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking since 1988, when he started out working as a trader for Delahaye Generale Options. He subsequently held various trading positions in the US and Paris, before being appointed Head of Trading and Arbitrage for French Equity Derivatives activities in Paris in 1993. He later moved to Tokyo to work as Head of Asian equity derivatives and in 1997 returned to Paris to take up the role of Head of Trading. In 1999 he was appointed Deputy Head of Equity Derivatives Division. In 2007, Luc has been appointed
co-head of the Global Equities & Derivatives Solutions division. He is a member of the Group Management Committee of Société Générale. Luc is a graduate of ESE (Ecole Superieur d’Electricite).

Société Générale
Société Générale is one of the largest financial services groups in the euro-zone. The Group employs 120,000 people worldwide in three key businesses:
􀂃 Retail Banking & Financial Services: Société Générale serves 24 million individual customers worldwide.
􀂃 Global Investment Management & Services: Société Générale is one of the largest banks in the euro-zone in terms of assets under custody (EUR 2 585 billion, Sept 2007) and under management (EUR 450,1 billion, Sept 2007).
􀂃 Corporate & Investment Banking: Société Générale ranks among the leading banks worldwide in euro capital arkets, derivatives and structured finance.
Société Générale is included in the five major socially-responsible investment indexes.

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Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking

A leading player present in over 45 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking is the bank of reference for:
􀂃 Euro capital markets. A top 5 player across euro debt capital markets (bonds, securitisation, loans), and a leader in French Equity Capital Markets with European reach.
􀂃 Derivatives. A world leader in equity derivatives, and with forefront positions in many interest rate, credit,
foreign exchange and commodities derivatives.
􀂃 Structured finance. A worldwide leader in export, project and structured commodity finance with global expertise in energy, infrastructure, real estate and media & telecom finance.
Tailoring solutions in terms of capital raising, financing, risk management and investment, Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking combines expertise, innovation and advisory skills coupled with quality of execution to both issuers and investors clients across debt and equity.

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