Board of Directors dari Danone dipimpin oleh Franck Riboud yang juga menjabat sebagai Chief Executive Officer. Board of Directors terdiri dari 14 anggota, dengan delapan diantaranya merupakan anggota independen yang dipilih melalui rekomendasi dari Nomination and Compensation Committee.
Di dalam Board of Directors termasuk diantaranya Audit Committee, Social Responsibility Committee, dan Nomination and Compensation Committee.
Anggota dari Board of Directors per Mei 2012, adalah:
• Franck Riboud
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Danone
• Emmanuel Faber
Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors and Deputy General Manager
• Bernard Hours
Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors and Deputy General Manager of Danone
• Bruno Bonnell
Chairman of Sorobot SAS
• Richard Goblet d’Alviella
Executive Chairman of Sofina SA
• Yoshihiro Kawabata
Senior Managing Director and Head of International
Business Division of Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd.
• Jean Laurent
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Foncière des Régions
• Benoit Potier
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of L’Air Liquide SA
• Isabelle Seillier
Chairman of J.P. Morgan for France
• Jean-Michel Severino
Managing Partner, “Investisseur and Partenaire Conseil”
• Jacques Vincent
Chairman of Compassionart
• Jacques-Antoine Granjon
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of vente-privee.com
• Mouna Sepehri
Member of the Executive Committee, Executive Vice-President of RENAULT SAS
• Virginia A. Stallings
Professor of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Secara umum, kami berpendapat bahwa Struktur Corporate Governance dari Danone adalah di bawah rata-rata. Posisi chairman dan CEO telah dijabat oleh Franck Riboud sejak 1996, dan struktur tersebut memberikan kekuatan yang terlalu besar bagi seorang individu. Lima director telah menjabat di Board of Directors selama kurang lebih 12 tahun. Menurut kami, posisi yang hampir permanen dari