Director, Strategy & Planning Department, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
Mr. Jean-Paul Villain is a Director in the Strategy and Planning Department and a permanent invitee to ADIA's Investment Committee.
Mr. Villain began his career as an Assistant Professor of Finance at Paris University, before joining Banque Paribas in 1971 as a Portfolio Manager and later Head of Investments in the Asset Management Department. He joined ADIA in 1982, as Regional Manager for Europe before being appointed as a Senior Fund Manager for all financial assets. He returned to Paribas in 1987 to become the first Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of the newly created Paribas Asset Management Company. In September 1992, he re-joined ADIA as Regional Manager for European Assets before being promoted in 1995 to the position of Advisor and then Senior Advisor for Investment Strategy.
Mr. Villain is a member of the Investment Committee of the Abu Dhabi Benefits and Retirement Fund, the pension fund of the citizens of Abu Dhabi. From 2004 to 2013 he was a Director of the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) and a Governor of the British Community School in Abu Dhabi (BSAK). In April 2007, the President of the French Republic made him "Chevalier de la Legion d' Honneur". In December 2014 he was made Officer of the British Empire by Her Majesty the Queen of England.
He was educated in Paris in Politics, Economics and Sciences (Applied Mathematics).