Dominique Sénéquier

French businesswoman. She is chief executive of AXA Private Equity, and in August 2011 was assessed as number 98 on Forbes' list of the 100 most powerful women in the world. She was number 50 on the same list in 2009. In 2012 she was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

She was one of the first seven women admitted to the École Polytechnique in 1972, the year of its first female intake.

She holds a postgraduate degree in Banking and Monetary Economics from the University of Sorbonne, and is a former director of Hewlett-Packard, having resigned in March 2012. She has more than 200 employees running more than 50 active funds.

She is a concert-standard pianist who enjoys opera, sometimes travelling to Venice and Salzburg to hear it.