Matthieu Louvot has been named Vice President, Head of Corporate Strategy & Company Development for the Eurocopter Group and will be reporting directly to Eurocopter CEO Lutz Bertling.

After having begun his career as an inspector at the General Inspectorate of Finance in the French finance ministry, Matthieu Louvot, who is 35, was then budgetary adviser of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and adviser for regional development at the Ministry of the Interior. More recently, he was adviser to the French President in the sectors of industry, energy and transportation.

Matthieu Louvot is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique Engineering School and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration after studying at the National School of Economics, Statistics and Finance and the Paris Institute of Political Science.

Mr. Louvot succeeds Andreas Loewenstein, who is leaving the company.