Administration
In June 2011, the French government named Luc Oursel, formerly chief of marketing, as Chairman of the Executive Board, replacing Anne Lauvergeon, who served 10 years in the position. The Chairman's actions are subject to considerable oversight by both the board of directors and the supervisory board. In 2006, Spencer Abraham, the former U.S. Secretary of Energy, was named non-executive chairman of Areva Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Areva.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin's government announced the privatization of Areva in 2003, but it was postponed several times, the French government opting finally for the privatization of GDF and EDF. At the end of October 2005, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced that he had suspended the privatization process.
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