11 Facts About Anne-Marie Idrac

From 1974 to 1995, Anne-Marie Idrac worked as civil administrator in various posts in the Minister of Public Works, of housing, of the environment, of urbanism and of transports.

Anne-Marie Idrac was general director of the public establishment of rural development of Cergy-Pontoise from 1990 to 1993.

In 1995, still director of land transports, Anne-Marie Idrac was called to the government as woman issued from the civil society, to the post of Transportation State Secretary, which she occupied in the two governments of Prime Minister Alain Juppe.

Anne-Marie Idrac conducted the legislative reform of 1996 which led to the debt-clearing of the SNCF by the creation of the RFF, and to the experimentation in 5 regions of de-centralisation of regional trains, extended in 2001 by Jean-Claude Gayssot.

Anne-Marie Idrac was elected UDF deputy of the third circonscription of the Yvelines in 1997 and re-elected in 2002, losing to Herve Morin to the presidency of the group UDF at the National Assembly.

Anne-Marie Idrac was chairman of the regional council of the Ile-de-France and was general secretary to the 'Nouvelle Union' for the French Democracy.

In September 2002, Anne-Marie Idrac left her mandate and political functions to take on the presidency of the RATP, on the suggestion of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin.

Anne-Marie Idrac's tenure was marked most notably by the reform of retirement financing, the launching of automation of Parisian metro's line 1, the installation of a guaranteed contractual service in case of strikes, as well as contracts in foreign countries.

Anne-Marie Idrac oversaw the creation of an autonomous fund for retired railwaymen, rendered necessary by the application to enterprise of IFRS accounting norms.

Ahead of the 2012 presidential election, Anne-Marie Idrac endorsed Francois Bayrou's candidacy as President of France.

In 2007, Anne-Marie Idrac was named one of Europe's 25 top businesswomen in the Financial Times annual ranking.