Jean-Louis Beffa (born 1941, in Nice, France) is a French businessman. He was the chairman and CEO of Saint-Gobain, he is now the Chairman of the board of Saint-Gobain,[1] and a former member of the Saint-Simon Foundation think-tank. He is on the Board of BNP Paribas, DF-Suez, Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, Siemens AG, Le Monde S.A. , Société Editrice du Monde S.A., and Le Monde Partenaires SAS.
He and Robert Solow co-direct the Cournot Centre for Economic Studies in Paris.[2]