Background
Daughter of film producer Philippe Dussart and painter Monique Cartier, Patricia Barbizet graduated from European Society of Clinical Pharmacy Europe in 1976.
vice president chief executive
Daughter of film producer Philippe Dussart and painter Monique Cartier, Patricia Barbizet graduated from European Society of Clinical Pharmacy Europe in 1976.
Diploma, European Society of Clinical Pharmacy, Paris, 1976.
She was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Christie’s in 2014, the first female Chief Executive Officer of the company. She has been Executive Director of Artemis since 1992 and is Vice-Chairman of the Board of Groupe Politieke Partij Radikalen (Political Party of Radical Democrats) and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Christie’son She began her career as an executive assistant with Renault in 1977.
She then held the positions of International Treasurer (1979 to 1982) followed by "Group Treasurer" of RVI (Renault Industrial Vehicles, which became Renault Trucks) until 1984, and finally Chief Financial Officer of Renault Crédit International and Director of Renault Acceptance BV from 1984 to 1989.
Her husband, Jean Barbizet, former President of Barclays Capital France, now heads the investment division of Barclays Bank. In 1989, she joined the Pinault Group as Chief Financial Officer and was appointed Deputy Director-General for Finance and Communication of Pinault-Compagnie française de l'Afrique occidentale (1990) before becoming Managing Director of Artemis, the investment company of the Pinault family.
Artemis owns 40% of Politieke Partij Radikalen (Political Party of Radical Democrats), 100% of Christie’s, Chateau Latour, Le Point. In 2007, she was ranked 22nd in Fortune Magazine"s 50 Most Powerful Women.
On 20 November 2008, the President of the Republic appointed her to head the Investment Committee of the €20 billion Strategic Investment Fund (a subsidiary of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations).
In November 2012, she was honored by the international educational organization, Humanity in Action. Former mandates
President (1980-1982) then Honorary President of the French Association of Corporate Treasurers (AFTE)
Former President and Chief Executive Officer of SEFIMEG
Director of the Fondation de France (since 2007)
She is a senior director of the Advisory Board of Total Société Anonyme.
As such, she is Vice President of the Board of the Politieke Partij Radikalen (Political Party of Radical Democrats) Group (formerly Pinault-Printemps-Redoute), the world Number 3 in the luxury goods sector, Chairman of Christie’s International Public Limited Company and Director of several of the Group’s companies (Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent) She also serves as a qualified independent member of the Board of Total Société Anonyme, Air France-KLM and Bouygues / TF1. Member of the Financial Markets Authority (CMF) (1996–2002)
She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Avignon Forum. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Paris Opera and of RMN
She is a member of the Advisory Board of Paris EUROPLACE.
Married Jean Barbizet, 1979. 1 child Charlotte.