Effective September 1, Jean Bié, Chief Executive Officer of Total Gabon, is appointed Vice President, Purchasing, in the Corporate Affairs Department at headquarters.

	©  Marco DUFOUR	Jean Bié, 58, is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines engineering school in Paris. He joined the Group in 1974 as a geophysicist, rising to Gulf of Mexico Project Manager in 1982, then Assistant Exploration Manager at Mission France in 1984. In 1987, he was appointed Exploration Manager in Nigeria and then became Chief Operating Officer in Congo in 1992. He was Vice President Project Investment Review, E&P segment , from 1998 to 2000. In October 2000, he was named CEO of Total E&P Nederland, and since 2004 has been CEO of Total Gabon.