Société Générale Diversity Information

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Objectives:

• Equal recognition and opportunities for all employees, whatever their country of origin, gender, age, culture or profile,
• Drive and coordinate diversity policies that are adapted to particular contexts, and implement tools to monitor and report on diversity that are also adapted to context,
• Develop diversity in management, notably by increasing the number of foreign and female executive staff,
• Inform and train mangers and staff on the importance of diversity,
• Pursue the active recruitment and long-term employment of disabled employees.

Highlights in 2009:

• Société Générale counts 19% of women within decision-making bodies, such as the Executive Committee, Management committee etc. In 2010, the Group shows a diversity rate of more than 20%, at all levels of the Bank (workforce, supervision, Exco, Board of Directors)*,
• 41.3% of managers in France are women; an increase of 7.3% compared to previous year (40.4 %),
• 1,950 disabled employees in the Group,
• Signing of the Employment Charter at Fontenay sous Bois in November 2009 (along the lines of the one signed in Nanterre in 2007),
• Société Générale has been nominated 1stamong the CAC40 socially responsible enterprises, for the quality of its practices in terms of diversity (Ranking Capitalcom – RiskMetrics 2009*),
• Rewarded by “Enterprise and Diversity” for its action “Coup de pouce pour l’insertion”, created by Nora Communication and Claude Suquet Consulting,
• Komercni Banka was rewarded “best company” for its efforts in women/men equality efforts. This external reward has been issued by “Gender Studied” under the patronage of the French-Czech chamber of commerce.

Diversity, a daily reality and a strong commitment