Born in 1972, Laurent Obadia has worked as a consultant for more than 10 years for governments and French corporations.
Between 2000 and 2005, he served as an Advisory Director in the Euro RSCG / Havas Group. From 2005 to 2009, he was in charge of institutional relations for Africa, the Middle East and India at Veolia Water and was in charge of relations with public authorities and stakeholders in this. Moreover, he advises Veolia Water’s Chairman & CEO. Since 2009, he has been an advisor to our Chairman & CEO, Antoine Frérot. To meet the major challenges stemming from the Group’s transformation, he is supervising the change in strategy within the Communications Department, and took over at its head in 2013. He then supervised the deployment of Veolia’s new "resourcing the world" positioning in 2014 in all the Group’s regions and operations. He is also a member of the Management Committee. In 2022, Laurent Obadia became a member of the Executive Committee and was appointed Deputy CEO in charge of Stakeholders and Communications, Advisor to the Chairman.
