Patrick Jean Pouyanné[1] (born 24 June 1963) is a French engineer who has been serving as chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies since 2014.

In 1995, he became technical advisor for environment and industry, and chief of staff of François Fillon right after at the Information Technology and Space Minister from 1995 to 1996.

[2] In 2000 Total absorbed Elf and Pouyanné kept his position in this new French conglomerate that joined the ten most important petroleum groups in the world.

[2] At the 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos, Pouyanné attended a dinner of U.S. President Donald Trump with a group of European CEOs.

[1] In 2021, Greenpeace and two other civil society groups filed a complaint with a Paris prosecutor against Pouyanné, alleging he abused his role on the board of École Polytechnique to allow Total to build a research and innovation center on the university's campus in Saclay.