Renault Group has created a new General Secretary position and appointed its long-serving Chief Legal Officer, Quitterie de Pelleport, to lead it from 1 July 2026.
The move is part of a wider management reshuffle by CEO François Provost, who says Renault needs simpler governance and faster execution as it pursues its new futuREady strategic plan.
Rather than being a conventional corporate-secretary function focused on board procedures, Renault’s new General Secretariat will bring together a broad set of strategic control and support activities.
Central governance and resilience office
Under De Pelleport, the unit will combine legal affairs, audit, risk, ethics and compliance, prevention and protection, sustainability, strategic partnerships, defense activities, and Renault’s circular-economy business, The Future Is NEUTRAL.
The structure effectively turns the role into a central governance and resilience office for the French carmaker. It will have to anticipate regulatory, industrial, environmental, and societal developments while supporting Renault’s expansion beyond its core vehicle business.
That remit is particularly significant as Renault increases its involvement in strategic partnerships, circular-economy activities, and defense-related projects.
Military drones
The company has recently stepped up its work on military drones and multi-role vehicles in France, while The Future Is NEUTRAL is intended to develop vehicle dismantling, reuse, remanufacturing, and recycling activities.
Provost said the creation of the General Secretariat is a “key lever” for strengthening Renault’s governance and its ability to deliver on its ambitions. He added that the role should also support the development of activities with strong future potential.
The appointment gives De Pelleport one of the broadest non-product executive portfolios within Renault Group. She has already been Chief Legal Officer, Secretary of the Board of Directors, and a member of Renault’s Leadership Team since joining the company in February 2021.
Her background is rooted in international corporate law and industrial transactions. De Pelleport began her career in 2000 at Paris law firms Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel and DLA Piper. After more than seven years in private practice, she joined chemicals group Rhodia in 2008 as an M&A lawyer.
Belgian link
In 2010, she moved to Shanghai as Rhodia’s General Counsel for the Asia-Pacific region. When Rhodia merged with Belgian chemicals group Solvay in 2014, De Pelleport relocated to Belgium, where she became Deputy General Counsel before being appointed Group General Counsel at Solvay in 2017. Her responsibilities there also included compliance and mergers and acquisitions.
Her experience is therefore closely aligned with the increasingly complex issues Renault is facing, including alliance management and industrial partnerships, as well as European regulation, sustainability requirements, and strategic supply chains.
The new post also forms part of a broader reorganization of Renault’s leadership team. Following the departure of Josep-Maria Recasens, Sandra Gomez has been appointed Chief Product & Program Officer.
Gomez and Chief Strategy Officer Saad Khaled will report directly to Provost, allowing the Renault CEO to take closer control of strategy and the futuREady product plan, which foresees 36 new models by 2030.
Renault has also appointed François Lavernos as Chief Information & Digital Officer. Together, the changes show Provost drawing a clearer line between product and strategy on one side, and governance, risk, partnerships and new industrial activities on the other.
