André holds a civil engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and has spent 38 years within Total E&P Branch, including 20 years in various international postings. After having spent the initial third of his career in Drilling and Wells operations, he has fulfilled a number of different management positions. It included the position of Director of Angola Block 17, one of the major deepwater assets of the industry. He was for the last 5 years the Senior Vice President for Development and Support to Operations and a member of Total E&P Board of Directors. Over the same period, he was also President of Total Well Response. Since the beginning of 2020, he is Special Advisor to the President E&P.