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| name = Karima Silvent
🏢 '''Executive role overview.''' Karima Silvent (circa 2024). Karima Silvent is a French business executive serving as Deputy General Secretary of AXA, one of the world’s largest insurance groups, with responsibility for Human Resources, Compliance, Audit, and the AXA “EssentiALL” program<ref name="AXA_Press_2025">{{cite press release |title=AXA announces changes within its leadership team |url=https://www.axa.com/en/press/press-releases/axa-announces-changes-within-its-leadership-team |publisher=AXA |date=2025-10-17}}</ref>. She sits on AXA’s Management Committee and is widely recognized as a leading figure in human capital management. From 2017 to 2025, Silvent was AXA’s Group Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), overseeing HR strategy for approximately 170,000 employees globally<ref name="Emile_Mag_2021">{{cite magazine |title=Karima Silvent, DRH de l’annĂ©e |url=https://www.emilemagazine.fr/article/2021/11/15/en-vue-ces-sciences-po-qui-font-bouger-les-lignes |magazine=Emile Magazine |date=2021-11-30}}</ref><ref name="Cognizant_2024">{{cite press release |title=Cognizant Names Karima Silvent to Board of Directors |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cognizant-names-karima-silvent-to-board-of-directors-302195185.html |publisher=Cognizant |date=2024-07-11}}</ref>.▼
| honorific_prefix = Chevalier
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| image = karima-silvent.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1974}}
| birth_place = Comoros
| citizenship = France
| education =
| alma_mater = Institut d’Études Politiques (1995)<br/>École Nationale d’Administration (1997)
| occupation = Business Executive
| employer = AXA
| title = Deputy General Secretary
| term = December 2025 – Present
| predecessor =
| successor =
| boards = Cognizant<br/>EPIDE (Chairwoman)
| known_for = First woman of Comorian origin to graduate from École Nationale d’Administration<br/>Modernizing AXA’s workplace culture
| spouse =
| children =
| awards = Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur (2020)<br/>HR Director of the Year (2021)
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🌟 '''Reputation and impact.''' In this role she gained a reputation as one of France’s most respected HR leaders, known for championing diversity, inclusion, and employee well-being as drivers of performance<ref name="Emile_Mag_2021" /><ref name="Favikon_2025">{{cite web |title=Who is Karima Silvent? |url=https://www.favikon.com/blog/who-is-karima-silvent |website=Favikon |date=2025-10-20}}</ref>. Silvent’s professional standing is bolstered by over two decades of experience spanning public service and the private sector. Colleagues and industry observers credit her with modernizing AXA’s workplace culture – for example, achieving notable increases in female representation in senior management, implementing global “smart working” (flexible work) policies, and expanding employee health programs<ref name="Emile_Mag_2021" /><ref name="Emile_Mag_2021_Alt" />.
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