Jean-Claude Lasserre has been CEO – South Africa & Sub Saharan Africa, Saint Gobain since 2018, overlooking operations in 12 countries within the continent. He has been working at Saint-Gobain for 25 years holding different positions from Business Development to General Management in 7 countries across Asia, Europe, South America and Africa. Saint-Gobain is a worldwide leader in Building Materials, present industrially in 68 countries with 180,000 employees, a Turnover of 42B€ and more than 350 years of history. Jean-Claude Lasserre has spent 9 years working in Africa (Ivory Coast then South Africa).