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FACTS AND FIGURES
BoardofDirectors
The Carrefour Foundation is administered by a nine-member Board of Directors made up of five qualified
public figures, three members representing the founders, and a staff representative.
The Board of Directors meets three times a year. It determines the strategic orientations of the Foundation’s activities,
validates its budget and verifies its execution.
Mr Jérôme Bédier
Chairman of the Foundation,
General Secretary of the Carrefour group
Mr Boutros Boutros-Ghali
President of the Egyptian National Council
for Human Rights and former General
Secretary of the United Nations
Dr Xavier Emmanuelli
Founder of
Samusocial
International and
Samusocial
Paris, former Minister of Social
Affairs
Mr Xavier Fontanet*
Founder of “
Fondation Fontanet
”,
former CEOof Essilor
Mr Wu Jianmin
Honorary President of the International
Exhibitions Bureau, former Chinese
Ambassador to France
Mr Guy Paillotin
Honorary President of INRA,
Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy
of Agriculture
Mrs Marie-Noëlle Brouaux
Executive Communications Director
of the Carrefour group
Mr Noël Prioux
Executive Director France
of the Carrefour group
Mrs Martine Saint-Cricq
Staff representative
* Appointed on 10 February 2015.
2014key figures
The Foundation provided manpower, technical and financial support to 60 projects in 2014. This choice corresponds to
the criteria set out by the Board of Directors with a concern to focus the Foundation’s aid on tangible initiatives, while drawing
on the skills and know-how of the Group’s employees. Every project supported was subject to an assessment.
The accounts of the Carrefour Foundation are audited annually by statutory auditors.
Geographical
breakdown of projects
LatinAmerica
19%
France
45%
Asia
19%
OtherEuropean
countries
17%
Breakdown of the
Foundation’s funding
Operating
expenses
7%
Projects
91%
Communication
2%
60
PROJECTS FUNDED
€5.8
M
BUDGET USED