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Peggy Nahmany

Executive Vice-President, Communications

Peggy Nahmany joined Thales in 2019 as Vice-President, Communications Director, reporting to Chairman and CEO Patrice Caine.

Peggy Nahmany is a graduate of the Institut Supérieur de Gestion business school (1992) and auditor of the 76th "Politics of Defence" national session of the Institute of French Advanced National Defence studies (IHEDN, 2023-2024).

She began her career in 1992 at Euro RSCG’s Havas advertising network, first as International Coordinator, and then as Press Officer. In 1997, she was appointed Communications Director of Euro RSCG, based in New York (1997-2004), before being promoted to Communications Director of the Havas Group in Paris.

In 2005, she joined Kering as External Relations Director in charge of media and public relations.

In 2007, she joined Publicis as VP, Group Communications Director, a position she held until 2019. 

In 2015, she was part of the founding team of VivaTech (co-organised by Publicis and French economic newspaper Les Echos). In the course of her duties, she also managed communications and media partnerships for the French Association of Private Enterprises (AFEP). She has also contributed to several international events (e-G8, Women's Forum for the Economy and Society).