Gérard MESTRALLET (born 01.04.1949)
Gérard Mestrallet is aircraft engineer, graduate of École Polytechnique, IEP (Institut d'Études Politiques) and ENA (École Nationale d'Administration). He joined Compagnie de SUEZ as 'chargé de mission' in 1984. In 1986 he was appointed Deputy General Delegate for industrial matters. In February 1991 he was appointed CEO and Chairman of the General Management Committee of Société Générale de Belgique. In 1995 he became Chairman and General Manager of Compagnie de SUEZ, and subsequently, Chairman of the Directorate of SUEZ Lyonnaise des Eaux in June 1997. He was appointed Chairman and General Manager of SUEZ on 4 May 2001. He is Chairman of the Société Générale de Belgique and later of SUEZ-TRACTEBEL since 28 February 2001. He has been a director of Electrabel since 2003 and Chairman of the Board since 1 January 2005.

Jean-Pierre HANSEN (born 25.04.1948)
Jean-Pierre Hansen is graduated in electrical engineering, in economic science and is doctor in engineering. He entered the electricity and gas sector in 1975. As from 1 January 2005 Jean-Pierre Hansen has been Vice-Chairman and CEO of Electrabel, which function he already has exercised from 1992 to March 1999. Since March 1999 he has also held the position of Chairman of the Strategy Committee (previously Executive Committee) of Electrabel. He is also CEO of SUEZ-TRACTEBEL and Chairman of Fluxys and of Fabricom. He is Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee and Senior Executive Vice-President of SUEZ, in charge of Operations. He is a director of SUEZ Energy Services, SUEZ Environnement, Electrabel Customer Solutions, Distrigas, Agbar, Acea, and Arcelor, Vice-Chairman of the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium, guest professor of UCL and École Polytechnique (Paris).

Emmanuel van INNIS (born 20.08.1947)
Emmanuel van Innis, Doctor of Law, has been involved in the electricity and gas sector since 1971. He is director of SUEZ-TRACTEBEL, member of the Executive Committee of SUEZ and Executive Vice-President in charge of Group Human Resources. He is also Chairman of Contassur and Insutrel, Vice-Chairman of Fabricom and director of various subsidiaries within the Group, such as SUEZ Energy Services, Distrigas and Cosutrel. He is also director of the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium and of SN Airholding. He has been a director of Electrabel since 1992, and was appointed Vice-Chairman in 1998 and member of the Strategy Committee (previously Executive Committee) in 2003.

Alain CHAIGNEAU (born 08.09.1951)
Alain Chaigneau, master in Economics and qualified from IAE Paris. After starting out his carreer for Banque de France then for Direction du Trésor, he joined Compagnie de SUEZ as Deputy Manager. In 1989, he was appointed Manager for Planification and Strategy. From 1991 to 1995 he was a director of Société Générale de Belgique, to which he became Chief Financial Officer and member of the Management Committee in 1995. From 1999 to 2003, he was Executive Vice-President in charge of Finance and Administration of Ondeo Services. In 2003, he held the position of Senior Executive Vice-President responsible for Finance and Administration of SUEZ Environnement; in 2005 he was appointed Senior Executive Vice-President in charge of the Americas. Since 2007 he is Executive Vice-President responsible for Business Strategy and member of the Executive Committee of SUEZ. He is Officier de l'Ordre de Léopold II (Belgium).

Baron CROES (born 29.03.1934)
Baron Croes, a graduate in mathematics and actuarial science, previously held various posts in the AG insurance group and Fortis, of which he was Executive board member until 1996. He is the President of the 'Institut Royal des Élites du Travail' and of the 'Collège Royal des Doyens d'honneur du Travail'.
He is also Vice-Chairman of Immobel and director of Tessenderlo-Chemicals and Forelux. He was previously director of the Société Générale de Belgique and of TRACTEBEL. He has been a director of Electrabel since 1997 and Chairman of the Audit Committee since 2003.

Yves de GAULLE (born 01.09.1951)
Yves de Gaulle holds a degree in economic science, graduate of IEP (Institut d'Etudes politiques Paris) and alumnus of ENA (Ecole Nationale de l'Administration). He began his career at the French Ministry for Finance (1977), to become later technical adviser (1986) to the deputy Minister responsible for privatisation and as General Secretary of the Privatisation Committee.
In 1989, he was appointed Managing partner of the law firm KPMG/FIDAL, subsequently becoming a partner at law firm Jeantet (1991-1992).
After joining the AGF/Allianz group in September 1992, Yves de Gaulle served as CEO of the group's subsidiary in Spain, deputy General Manager responsible for international affaires, member of the Executive Committee  and General Manager of the Euler group.
Yves de Gaulle joined the SUEZ group in April 2004 and was appointed General Secretary on
1 July 2004. He has been a director of Cosutrel since september 2004, of SUEZ-TRACTEBEL since October 2004 and of Electrabel since May 2005. He has also been a member of the Executive Committee of SUEZ since November 2005.

Pierre DRION (born 10.01.1942)
Pierre Drion, Master of Science in Management and graduated in commercial and financial science, is Managing Director of the Petercam Group. He is also Chairman of Spadel, director of Axa Belgium and Vice-Chairman of the Belgian Bankers and Stockbroking Firms Association. He has been a director of Electrabel since 2001.

Luc HUJOEL (born 10.02.1951)
Luc Hujoel holds a master's degree in economics. He is Chairman of the College of Experts of Intermixt (Association of mixed intermunicipal companies). He is also Vice-Chairman of Brussels Network Operations, General Manager of the Sibelga intermunicipal company, General Advisor to the Interfin intermunicipal company, Consultant to Sibelgas and General Manager of IBE-IBG. From 1997 to 1998 he represented Intermixt as a director of Electrabel. He has been a director of Electrabel on a personal capacity since 1998.

Gérard LAMARCHE (born 15.07.1961)
Gérard Lamarche, who holds a degree in Economic Science, served as consultant and then senior accountant with Deloitte Haskins & Sells in the mid-eighties.  He joined Société Générale de Belgique in 1988 as controller and in 1992 became a member of the Corporate Strategy Group. In 1995, he joined Compagnie de SUEZ and in 1997, M. Lamarche served first as chief of staff for the Chairman and CEO and eventually assumed the duties of Senior Vice President and Controller of SUEZ Lyonnaise des Eaux. He accepted an assignment in the U.S. as Executive Vice President for Ondeo Nalco, then a SUEZ subsidiary, returning to SUEZ headquarters in 2003 to become CFO. He presently serves as Senior Executive Vice President Finance of SUEZ.
Certain other directorships and positions: Chairman of Cosutrel, director of SUEZ-TRACTEBEL, Distrigaz, SUEZ Environnement, SUEZ Energy Services, Leo Holding Company, Ondeo North America, Aguas de Barcelona and Legrand. He has been director of Electrabel since 2004, member of the Audit Committee since 2005 and member of the Strategy Committee since 11 May 2006.

Robert-Olivier LEYSSENS (born 30.07.1958)
Robin Leyssens holds a degree in business studies from Solvay (ULB) and a Master of Business Administration from the KULeuven.
He joined the internal audit department of Tractionel in 1982 and gained banking experience at Bank Degroof (1984-1986).
In 1986, he joined Tractebel, where he served as Director of the Financial Studies Department. In 1990, he was appointed Director of the Corporate & Project Finance Department, he receives the responsibility of the Financial communication and later the one of Asset Manager North America for SEI.
From 2003 to May 2005, Robin Leyssens was Electrabel's Chief Financial Officer. Since May 2005, he is over as Group Senior Vice-President Finance and Tax of SUEZ. He has been chairman of Synatom, director of Immobel, of Cosutrel and since 2005, of Electrabel.

Jean-Pierre RUQUOIS (born 07.05.1944)
Jean-Pierre Ruquois holds a business degree, another in commercial and finance science and an Master of Business Administration. He is Advisor to the Sofina Management and has been a director of Electrabel since 2001, after having represented Sofina on the Board of Directors for many years. He has been a member of the Audit Committee since 2003.

Lutgart VAN den BERGHE (born 07.11.1951)
Lutgart Van den Berghe holds a doctorate in economic science. She is also a full professor at the University of Ghent and the Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School, where her main field of research is Corporate governance'. At the Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School she is also director and President of the Entrepreneurship, Governance and Strategy' skills centre.
Prof. Dr. Lutgart Van den Berghe is Chief Executive Officer of the Belgian Governance Institute, a member of the Board of Commissioners of various multinational companies including CSM (NL), SHV (NL) and Solvay (NL). She has been a director of Belgacom and since 2003, of Electrabel.

Baron VANDEPUTTE (born 17.01.1946)
Tony Vandeputte is Doctor of law, graduate in notariat, economics and philosophy, and then earned a Master of Science degree (Economics) from Edinburgh University. He was Chief Executive Officer of the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium until June 2004. Since then he has held the position of General counsellor. Prior to his activities at the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium, Baron Vandeputte worked at the Bureau du Plan and taught at the UFSIA (Universitaire Faculteiten Sint Ignatius Antwerpen). He is also director of EHSAL (Europese Hogeschool Brussel). Since 2004, he has been a director of Electrabel and since 11 May 2006 a member of the Strategy Committee.

Baron van GYSEL de MEISE (born 14.09.1939)
Jean-Paul van Gysel de Meise has held various directorships with Sarma and Nopri, Sarma-Congo, Élevages des Marungu et Kundelungu in Katanga (Congo) and Brasserie de Haacht. He is Managing Director of the Plaza Hotel in Brussels. He was appointed director of Ebes in 1972 (later Electrabel), and from 1976 to 2000 he was director of the Société de Traction et d'Électricité (which later became Tractebel).

Baron VAN WAEYENBERGE (born 27.10.1938)
Piet Van Waeyenberge studied at the Universities of Louvain (degree in commercial and financial science, 1956-1960), Illinois (Master of Science in Agricultural Economics, 1962), Fontainebleau (Master of Business Administration at Insead, 1963) and Cambridge (Advanced Management Program, 1978). He currently holds the following positions: chairman of De Eik n.v, De Warande vzw, Indufin s.a. and of Culturaion Brussels, manager of BG & Co, director of Fortis s.a. and Fortis Brussels s.a., Suez Energy Services (independent director), Sobelder s.a., VUM Media n.v., Maison de la Radio Flagey s.a. and Flagey asbl, Quartier des Arts asbl, Vlaamse Academische Stichting vzw, of Europalia International vzw and of the Fondation Francqui (Public Benefit Foundation); honorary chairman of the Vlaams Economisch Verbond (VOKA), member of the Supervisory Board of Campina Melkunie n.v., of Koninklijke Sphinx Gustavsberg n.v. and of De Eik Beheer b.v. (Nijmege). He has been a director and a member of the Strategy Committee of Electrabel since 11 May 2006.

Geert VERSNICK (born 15.12.1956)
Geert Versnick is Doctor of Law and was a member of the Bar of Ghent from 1980 to 2000.
In addition to holding a number of political offices he is a member of Chamber of Representatives since 1994, and in this capacity he serves on numerous committees, both at national and European level. Since 2001 he has been Alderman for Public Works of the City of Ghent. From May 1998 to November 2000 he represented Finiwo as a director on the Electrabel Board. He has been a director of Electrabel in a personal capacity since 2003.

Xavier VOTRON (born 19.02.1952)
Xavier Votron holds a master's degree in electrical engineering and a degree in nuclear science. Since 1976 he has occupied various positions in the company in the Generation and Distribution departments. In 2000 he was appointed General Manager Generation, and in May 2001 he became General Manager with responsibility for Generation and Industrial Sales Belgium. In January 2004 he became General Manager for Belgium-Luxembourg. From March 2005 to March 2006 he holds the position of General Manager Generation, Distribution, IT. Since April 2006, he has taken over as Central Director Suez, in charge of promoting technological innovation and renewable energies. He has also been Chairman of Laborelec and director of Electrabel (since 2001), of Distrigas and is also a director of various subsidiaries in Belgium.