Total E&P Qatar managing director Stéphane Michel has been appointed President Middle East, Exploration & Production Division at Total.
He will take on new assignment in Paris on January 1 and report to Arnaud Breuillac, President (Exploration & Production) at Total.
Previously he held the position of Managing Director, Total E&P Libye after being responsible for Total E&P Qatar (Joint Venture and Business Development) from 2008 to 2010.
Michel entered the Total Group in 2005 as business development manager for Total Dowstream Asia, based in Singapore, after having served as Energy Advisor to the French Finance Minister between 2002 and 2004.
A graduate of Ecole Polytechnique (1994) and Ecole des Mines de Paris (1997), Stéphane Michel is an engineer of the Corps des Mines.
Born in 1973, Stéphane Michel is married and has three children.