Jean-Michel BILLIG appointed Executive Vice President, Engineering and Quality with the renault Group

On July 1, 2012, Renault announced the appointment of Jean-Michel Billig as a member of the Executive Committee and Executive Vice President, Engineering and Quality, replacing Odile Desforges.

After graduating in 1987 from Ecole Centrale Paris as an engineer, he began his career at Eurocopter in Munich as head of the man-machine interface for the Tiger anti-tank helicopter. In 1998, he became head of Systems Procurement at Airbus before being appointed Vice President for the A400M programme for France in 2003. In 2007, he became Senior Vice President, Systems Engineering at Airbus. He moved back to Euro copter in 2009 as Executive Vice President Engineering and member of the Executive Committee.

Jean-Michel Billing was born in Bremen, Germany and is 48.