Background
Fabrice Brégier was born in Dijon in July 1961, and graduated from École Polytechnique and École des Mines de Paris.
entrepreneur Chief Executive Officer
Fabrice Brégier was born in Dijon in July 1961, and graduated from École Polytechnique and École des Mines de Paris.
École Polytechnique; Mines ParisTech.
He was appointed president and chief executive officer of Airbus on 1 June 2012. He is on the executive committee of Airbus Group, which operates Airbus, Airbus Defence and Space, and Airbus Helicopters. Brégier began his career in 1983 as a test engineer at the Creys-Malville Superphénix nuclear plant.
In 1984, he became sales manager for French aluminium conglomerate Pechiney in Japan.
He joined the DRIRE (the French Ministry of Industry) in Alsace in 1986 before being appointed director of economic and financial affairs at the Ministry of Agriculture in 1989. A year later, as a technical advisor to the minister of foreign trade, he became responsible for multilateral business affairs
Later he was appointed technical advisor to the minister of post and telecommunications, in charge of industrial and international affairs MBDA
In 1993, Brégier joined Matra Défense as chairman of two projects: Apache MAW GIE (co-operation with Dasa) and Eurodrone GIE (with STN-Atlas).
He was appointed director of stand-off activities (Apache, Scalp EG/Storm Shadow) in 1996, in what had become Matra BAe Dynamics.
From the beginning of 1998, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Matra BAe Dynamics. In 2001, he helped create the new European missile systems company MBDA from Aerospatiale Matra (France), British Aerospace (United Kingdom) and Finmeccanica (Italy). He was then appointed Chief Executive Officer of MBDA. Eurocopter
In 2003, Brégier was appointed Chief Executive Officer and president of Eurocopter.
Airbus
In October 2006, as the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company reorganized Airbus after delays to the A380 project, Brégier was appointed chief operating officer chief operating officer) of Airbus.
Together with Louis Gallois, he is tasked with implementing the Power 8 reorganization plan.
He also became a member of the the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company executive committee in June 2005.