Ulrike
Decoene
Group Chief Communication, Brand & Sustainability Officer
Ulrike Decoene is the AXA Group Head of Communication, Brand and Sustainability since 2019, and a member of the AXA Management Committee. She has held teaching positions at the universities of Yale and Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. Ulrike joined AXA in 2007 as Head of Media Relations and Internal Communications of AXA Investment Managers, after working for several offices of the French government between 2003 and 2007. She then joined the Group's Mediterranean, Latin America and Africa region as Head of Communications, Corporate Responsibility and Public Affairs, before becoming Director of the AXA Research Fund in 2015. From 2016 to 2019, she served as Chief of Staff to Thomas Buberl, CEO of AXA. She graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Sorbonne University Paris IV.