The FIA has announced that Jean-Baptiste Pinton, who joined the FIA on July 1st, has replaced Damien Clermont as Chief Administrative Officer from October 1st.

As such, he is responsible for the strategic direction of the FIA Support Services and coordinates the everyday administrative and financial activities of the FIA. He reports directly to the President.

Jean-Baptiste Pinton is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, and has a Master in Banking Management from Paris-Dauphine University.

He started his career in 1988 as a civil servant in the Ministry of Economy and Finance. He was subsequently posted for three years in Singapore as Deputy French Trade Commissioner. In 1997 he joined the Department of Foreign Affairs as the Deputy Managing Director for Budget. He then became First Counsellor at the French Embassy in the Republic of South Africa in 2000.

In 2002, he became Secretary General of IRSN (Institut de radioprotection et de sureté nucléaire). From 2007 to 2014, he was Deputy Chief Executive Officer of DCI (Défense Conseil International), a French company focusing on the transfer of military know-how to friendly countries.

Before joining the FIA, Jean-Baptiste Pinton was a partner at Leaders Trust International, a firm specialising in executive search and leadership consulting, since June 2015.

He is based in Geneva.