Jean Todt - 120 - Alain Elkann Interviews

SAFETY FIRST. Jean Todt is a French motor racing executive and former rally co-driver. He was Peugeot Talbot Sport’s director and then Scuderia Ferrari Formula 1 team principal, before being appointed CEO of Ferrari from 2004 to 2008. From 2009 to 2021 he served as the 9th president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon appointed Todt as the United Nations’ Special Envoy for Road Safety in 2015, a role to which he was reappointed by António Guterres in 2018. In January 2018 Todt was appointed to the Board of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens. He also sits on the boards of Gaumont, the Groupe Lucien Barrière and Edmond de Rothschild SA.