Authorised Management
The Authorised Management of the Bank consists of the Chief Executive Officer, the General Secretary and the Chief Operating Officer. The Authorised Management of the Bank is in charge of the effective, sound and prudent day-to-day management.
Frédéric Surdon joined Societe Generale Group in 1995. After having worked from 1995 to 2000 in the Real Estate department of Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking (SGCIB), Frédéric Surdon joined the structured financing team. In 2004, he became Deputy Head for Continental Europe and US for the structured financing, then Head for the same perimeter in 2006. From 2008 to 2013, he was COO of the Global Finance’s division (worldwide). In 2013, he was appointed as Global Head of Export Finance and in 2015 he became Global Head of Asset Finance since August 2023.
Frédéric Surdon was a member of SG Luxembourg’s Board of Directors since 2019.
He hold a MBA from ESSEC and in Civil Engineering from ESTP.
Anne de Kouchkovsky was appointed General Secretary of Societe Generale Luxembourg since 1st of February 2022.
Anne has spent all her career in Societe Generale Group. She was until recently, the Chief Risk Officer and member of the Management Board of Rosbank (Russian subsidiary of the Group). Before that, from 2012 to February 2018, she was Deputy Head then Head of Operational Risk of the Group. Before joining the Risk Department in 2012, Anne has spent 20 years within the Corporate and Investment Banking arm of the Group: from 2009 to 2012 she was in the Aircraft Finance team where she joined after holding various positions within the Capital Markets Division, in Syndicate, Sales and Origination teams.
Anne is a graduate from ESCP with a major in finance and a minor in corporate law.
After a first work experience in CACIB, Peggy joined Societe Generale in 2004. She occupied various positions as a back and middle office manager for the Exotic Stock Derivatives activities.
In 2011, she became the worldwide Manager of the middle office teams in charge of structured products, as well as the fees team. In 2013, she became the worldwide Manager of the middle office teams in charge of exotic products, stock derivatives and fixed income. During that time, she obtained the certification ISO 9001 for the EMTN and Warrant chains, making SC CIB the first investment bank to receive the certification.
In 2017, she is appointed as worldwide Manager of middle offices and client support for the Financial Market Management (MARK). She contributed to the Agile@Scale transformation by defining the framework for each class of asset. She conducted a review of the organization for each function, which aimed at reaching a worldwide convergence of the processes, whilst also interacting constantly with the business, the internal partners, and the regulators. When the entity in charge of IT and Operations for the Equity Cash and Derivatives activities (GBSU/EQD) was created in 2019, Peggy was appointed as worldwide Manager of operations and the Exotic and Flows IT systems. She contributed to the implementation of SMEs, which eased the collaboration between IT teams, operational teams, and the business.
During her career, Peggy tackled numerous projects of IT transformation and optimization (Six Sigma, Exo One project of automatization of the structured product chain FO-BO, decommissioning of OFE Montage etc), either as project manager or as sponsor.
Peggy has 20 years of experience in the management of worldwide teams and developed her expertise in organization transformation, sponsorship of strategic projects and management. She holds a Diplôme d’études supérieure spécialisées (DESS), delivered by the Université Clermont-Auvergne, in market finance.