Kosmos adds former Total exec to board

Kosmos Energy announced that Yves-Louis Darricarrère has been appointed to its board of directors effective immediately.

Darricarrère retired earlier this year from Total after a distinguished 37 year career in which he served most recently as executive vice president of Total, and president of Total Upstream, with responsibility for all group upstream activities in more than 40 countries on five continents.

Darricarrère is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supèrieure des Mines and Institut d’Etudes Politiques, both in Paris, and he holds a master’s degree in economic science. He is also a chevalier de la Lègion d’Honneur (Knight of the French Legion of Honour). Darricarrère is currently a senior advisor with Lazard, a multinational financial advisory and asset management firm, as well as a senior lecturer in energy geopolitics at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.