Re Directorate

Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
26 July 2001

    
        Lady Jay appointed as a Director of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain

Lady Sylvia Jay has been appointed as a Director by the Board of Directors of
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, to replace Jacques-Louis Lions, following the
latter's death on May 17, 2001.

Lady Jay, 54, is Director General of the British Food and Drink Federation and
is the wife of the British ambassador to France.  She has previously held
several positions as a senior British civil servant, in the Overseas Development
Administration (ODA) and in secondment to the French Ministry of International
Cooperation, the French Treasury and the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (EBRD).

Lady Jay's appointment strengthens the international diversity of Compagnie de
Saint-Gobain's Board of Directors, which now includes four non-French Directors:
Rolf-E Breuer, Chairman of the Management Board of Deutsche Bank, a German
citizen, Paul Allan David, Professor of Economics at the universities of
Stanford and Oxford, a U.S. citizen, Lady Jay, a British citizen, and Jose Luis
Leal Maldonado, Chairman of the Spanish Banking Association, a Spanish citizen.


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