don't look for a single, simple answer 15:01 Dec 12, 2010
unfortunately there is no simple one-to-one correspondence between En & FR terms in this area; different companies name their senior directorial/managerial hierarchies differently in both EN and FR, and when it comes to companies operating in both languages the situation can be even more confusing – plus terms like CEO are often used as loanwords in French.
In the combination you have given, "Chairman" likely means "chairman of the board of directors", "President" is likely a titular (non-executive) position, and CEO is Chief Executive Officer, who has much more direct responsibility for operations; so PDG would probably cover the first two titles. |