Biography
Born in 1967, a graduate from École Centrale de Lyon (class of 1991), Laurent Auguste started his career in 1991 as a consultant in Tokyo. He joined Générale des Eaux in 1995 in Northern part of France. In 1999, after an initial positioning in Shanghai, he founded and led Veolia’s water activity in Korea, in 2002 in Japan, and in 2008 was appointed Executive Vice President for the Americas. In 2013 he was appointed Senior Executive Vice President Development Innovation & Markets of Veolia and member of the Executive Committee.