Claire Calmejane

Claire Calmejane is a former Group Chief Innovation Officer at Société Générale, appointed to that role in September 2018 reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer and serving as a member of the Group Management Committee. Her mandate at Société Générale covered fostering innovation culture, driving venturing efforts in internal and external startups, identifying market trends, and developing partnerships across the external fintech and technology landscape. She led the AI team contributing to €500 million in projected value by 2025, scaled the digital business from 3% to 30% direct sales, created SG Ventures — the corporate venture arm steering €400 million in startup investment — and initiated two business lines covering digital assets and banking as a service. She also served as a non-executive director of Boursorama, including as Chairwoman of its audit committee.

Prior to Société Générale, Calmejane held senior roles at Lloyds Banking Group, where she served as Risk Transformation Director and previously as Innovation Director, establishing the Innovation Labs and the Digital Academy. Before that, she worked at Capgemini Consulting from 2006, focusing on technology transformation for financial institutions, and contributed to a digital transformation study conducted in partnership with MIT in 2011. She has lectured on the fintech landscape and digital transformation at MIT, CFTE, Oxford, and HEC. She is a member of the World Economic Forum's Future of AI and Financial Services group. She holds an engineering degree from EPITA, where she graduated first in her class in Artificial Intelligence and cognitive science, and a Master's degree from HEC. She was also a visiting researcher at MIT.