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PARIS (Reuters) - Orange, France’s biggest telecoms operator, on Friday named Christel Heydemann as its new chief executive, making her the first woman to lead the former monopoly amid a revamp of its governance, Orange’s outgoing CEO tweeted on Friday.
Heydemann will move to Orange from French electric equipment group Schneider Electric.
The 47-year old Heydemann, a former graduate of France’s elite engineering school Polytechnique, will replace Stephane Richard at the helm of the state-controlled group after a court convicted him of complicity of misuse of public funds.
Richard, who has led Orange for the past 12 years, denies any wrongdoing.
Reporting by Mathieu Rosemain; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta/Ingrid Melander
