Henri de Castries Net Worth 2023, Salary, Age, Wife, Children, Height, Family, Parents

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Introduction

Henri de Castries is a French business executive. He served as chairman and CEO of AXA until retiring from both roles on 1 September 2016. In a joint contribution published in the French newspaper Le Monde in June 2012, De Castries – alongside fellow CEOs Franco Bernabe of Telecom Italia and Peter Löscher of Siemens – made a plea for European Union leaders to boost integration and restore growth in light of the European debt crisis.

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Early life

Name	Henri de Castries
Net Worth	$5 million
Occupation	Businessman
Age	68 years
Height	1.78m

Henri de Castries net worth

Henri de La Croix de Castries was born on August 15, 1954 (age 68 years) in Bayonne, France. His father was Count François de La Croix de Castries (1919/20–2011) who had a military career in Korea, Indochina, and Algeria. His maternal grandfather, Count Pierre de Chevigné, was a colonel in the Free French forces. With the backing of his family, De Castries broke with custom by not choosing a military career, although he did perform his national service in a parachute regiment, where he developed a passion for freefall.

De Castries attended the Ecole Saint-Jean de Passy, followed by high school at the Collège Stanislas de Paris He graduated from HEC Paris in 1976, the same year as Serge Lepeltier and Denis Kessler, from the École nationale d’administration alongside Dominique de Villepin, François Hollande and Ségolène Royal in 1980 (Promotion Voltaire). He also holds a law degree and speaks fluent English and German.

Career

Henri de Castries performed audit assignments on behalf of the Minister of Finances of France from 1980 to 1984 and in 1984 he became a member of the management of the French Treasury. In 1986, he participated in the privatization initiated by Jacques Chirac’s government, including Compagnie Générale d’Electricité, now known as Alcatel-Lucent, and TF1, both on the CAC 40.

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De Castries started his career at AXA in 1989, when he joined the central financial direction. In 1991, he was appointed general secretary, in charge of restructurations and mergers (integration of Compagnie du Midi). He was appointed general director in 1993, in charge of North America and the UK in 1994, and in charge of the merger and integration with Union des assurances de Paris (UAP) in 1996.

He served as President of the Board of Equitable (which became AXA Financial) in 1997 and has been Chairman of the Board of Directors since 2000. In 2009, he took full charge at AXA by consolidating the role of chairman with his chief executive position. In De Castries’ tenure, AXA became the first global financial institution to shun investments in coal companies when it sold 500 million euros of coal assets in 2015.

In 2016, he decided that AXA would join a global movement to exit tobacco investments by unloading about $2 billion in cigarette company stocks and bonds. In March 2016, it was announced De Castries would retire from both chairman and CEO roles at AXA on 1 September.

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Henri de Castries was regarded as the frontrunner for taking over as chairman of HSBC in late 2016; instead, the position went to Mark Tucker. Following the primaries for the 2017 presidential election, he served as François Fillon’s senior adviser and was tipped by news media for a future role as finance minister. In 2017, De Castries joined General Atlantic, the majority shareholder of Argus Media, as chairman and senior advisor.

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Wife

Henri de Castries is a married man. He has three children with his wife. As of 2023, De Castries and his family live on the Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris, and his brother-in-law lives in the same building. He spends his weekends in a castle in Anjou, and one week a month in the United States. In 2023, Henri de Castries and his wife toured London.