Benoît Potier is a French businessperson who has been the head of 11 different companies and presently holds the position of Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Air Liquide SA, Chairman & Co-Chief Executive Officer at Air Liquide Italia SpA, Chairman at Vitalaire Italia SpA, Chairman of Fondation d'entreprise Air Liquide, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer at Air Liquide International Corp. and Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Air Liquide International SA (which are all subsidiaries of Air Liquide SA), Chairman for European Round Table of Industrialists and Co-Chairman of The Hydrogen Council. Benoît Potier is also Chairman for Fondation d'entreprise Air Liquide, Member of Observatoire Des Actionnaires D’Avenir and Member-French Board at INSEAD and on the board of 9 other companies.

In his past career he was Chairman at Air Liquide Tunisie SA, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Air Liquide Advanced Technologies SA, Vice President at Etudes et Realisations de Travaux and Member of Trilateral Commission European Group.

He received an undergraduate degree from École Centrale Paris.