Profiles

Philippe Labonne

President, Africa Global Logistics

Graduate of Sup de Co Amiens in 1989, Philippe Labonne began his career the same year as a consultant at Price Water House Coopers (PWC). A few years later, in 1993, he joined Sitarail, one of the Bolloré Group’s African railway concessions, as Deputy Managing Director before holding other managerial positions within the Group, both in France and in Africa.

In 2015, Philippe Labonne was appointed Deputy Managing Director of Bolloré Transport and Logistics, following the merger of all the Group’s global port and logistics activities. He was also Chairman of Bolloré Ports and Bolloré Africa Logistics until December 2022, when Bolloré Transport & Logistics sold its subsidiary Bolloré Africa Logistics to the MSC Group.

Since then, Philippe Labonne is the President & CEO of AGL (Africa Global Logistics), the company resulting from this sale.

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