Michel Derdevet is the Secretary General of Enedis and a member of the Board of the Company. Mr. Derdevet graduated top of his class at Montpellier I Faculty of Law and holds an Executive MBA from the HEC International Business School. After holding several positions of responsibility in the offices of Government ministers, he spent the most of his career from 1985 onwards working for EDF, before moving to RTE upon its creation in 2000. He served until 2012 as Director of Communications and Public Affairs at RTE. A senior lecturer at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (IEP, where he teaches a class entitled "Europe and Business"), he is the author of a number of publications, including Europe out of Energy: the Case for a Genuine Common Energy Policy (Descartes, May 2009), and The Energy Future, Cards on the Table (Gallimard, February 2012). He delivered the report Energy, a Networked Europe - Twelve Proposals for a Common Energy Infrastructure Policy to President François Hollande on February 23rd 2015