Boeing has nominated Sabrina Soussan for election to the board of directors.
Soussan, 53, is chair and chief executive of SUEZ SA, a Paris-based global utility company dealing in water and waste management, and a former divisional chief executive at Siemens.
Her candidacy will be put to a vote at Boeing's upcoming annual meeting of shareholders, and, if passed, would make her the eighth independent board member to be appointed since 2019 and the first to be based outside the US.
"Sabrina is a proven leader who brings a global mindset with extensive engineering and senior leadership experience in manufacturing, safety, sustainability, transportation and digitalisation," said Boeing chair Larry Kellner, trying to drum up backing for the nominee, who has master's degrees in mechanical and aeronautical engineering from the École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d'Aérotechnique and in business administration from I.A.E. Poitiers and University of Dublin.
"Sabrina is an ideal leader to join the Boeing board as we continue to restore our operational strength, guided by our focus on safety, quality and transparency," said Dave Calhoun, Boeing president and chief executive.