Mathieu Dunant, aged 46, a graduate from France’s Ecole polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Techniques Avancées, started his career working for a consultancy firm. He set up an Internet network start-up, before joining RATP Group in 2003, where he worked first as manager of passenger information and on-board systems and then as General Manager for Line 14. In 2009, he was appointed CEO of RATP DEV America in New York before returning to Paris in 2012 to also manage RATP DEV’s Africa/America business unit. During three years (Septembre 2014 to June 2017), he served as Executive Vice President for France and Innovation at SYSTRA, the engineering subsidiary of RATP Group and SNCF.