Emmanuel Normant is graduated as engineer from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris. Before joining Saint-Gobain, he worked for the French Ministry in charge of Environment. Since 2002, he works for Saint-Gobain, mostly within the Construction Product Sector, in Brazil between 2002 and 2005, in China between 2005 and 2012, in France since then. In Asia, after having been in charge of the development of the pipelines activity for China, he took over the responsibility of General Delegate for Asia-Pacific for the Saint-Gobain Group. Between 2012 and 2016, Emmanuel Normant was President of the insulation activity of Saint-Gobain, the worldwide leader for sustainable insulation solutions. He has been appointed in May 2016 as Vice President for sustainable development for the Saint-Gobain Group.