Catherine MacGregor — Board Member Accountability Profile
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Catherine MacGregor — Board Member Accountability Profile

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Catherine MacGregor — Board Member Accountability Profile

Category: Private Citizen — Corporate Director Role: Independent Director, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Board Tenure: 2023 – present Committee Memberships: Compensation Committee; Environmental, Social, and Public Policy (ESPP) Committee Profile Type: Board Member Accountability — Anchor B (Documented Organizational Leadership)


Basis for Inclusion: Catherine MacGregor holds a documented governance role as an independent director of Microsoft Corporation, which made documented political donations to Trump-aligned entities while the corporation faced regulatory and policy decisions directly affecting its financial interests. MacGregor’s concurrent role as CEO of Engie S.A. — one of the world’s largest energy companies — creates a governance profile of cross-sector relevance, particularly given Microsoft’s major energy consumption and renewable energy procurement commitments. This profile documents the factual governance relationship, not the subject’s personal political views.

Subject Classification: Private Citizen / Corporate Director. Board membership is a matter of public record (SEC filings, proxy statements). This profile documents only the governance role and its connection to documented corporate political activity.

What is NOT the basis for inclusion: MacGregor’s personal political opinions, party affiliation, public statements, or any protected speech are NOT the basis for inclusion. The basis is solely the documented directorial role and its fiduciary connection to corporate political spending documented in the parent corporate donor profile.


Biographical Overview

Catherine MacGregor has been Group CEO and a director of Engie S.A. since January 2021. Engie is a French multinational energy company with operations in electricity generation, natural gas, and renewable energy, with revenues of approximately €84 billion. Before becoming Engie CEO, MacGregor was President of Technip Energies, a global engineering and technology company serving the energy sector. She spent 23 years at Schlumberger (now SLB) in various technical and regional leadership roles, including in drilling and completion.

MacGregor’s role at Engie is particularly relevant to her Microsoft board membership given that Microsoft is one of the world’s largest corporate buyers of renewable energy, seeking to power its data centers — including those that run Azure AI services — with clean energy. Engie and Microsoft have entered into significant renewable power purchase agreements. Her background in energy infrastructure provides important perspective to Microsoft’s environmental and sustainability committee.

She is a French national and holds an engineering degree from École Centrale Paris.


Board Role and Governance Authority

  • Company: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT)
  • Board tenure: 2023 – present
  • Committee assignments: Compensation Committee; Environmental, Social, and Public Policy (ESPP) Committee
  • Day job: Group CEO & Director, Engie S.A. (Euronext: ENGI)

Other Current Board Memberships

  • Director, Engie S.A. (Euronext Paris: ENGI) — in executive capacity as Group CEO

Parent Corporate Donor Profile

This profile is a governance-accountability companion to the Microsoft — Corporate Donor Profile, which documents the corporation’s political spending, pending government business, and favorable outcomes under the Trump administration.


Sources

  • Microsoft Corporation DEF 14A Proxy Statement, filed October 21, 2025 (annual meeting December 5, 2025)
  • SEC EDGAR filing: Microsoft Corporation (CIK 789019)
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