French automotive giant Renault Group has announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Luca de Meo, is stepping down from his position effective 15 July 2025.

Luca has been at the company for five years, during which time he has helped with a significant turnaround and transformation of the group, according to its board of directors. He is leaving the company to pursue new challenges outside of the automotive sector.

“For five years, Luca de Meo has worked to restore Renault Group to its rightful place,” said Jean-Dominique Senard, Chairman of Renault Group’s Board of Directors.

“Under his leadership, our company has returned to a healthy foundation, boasts an impressive range of products and has resumed growth. Besides being an exceptional captain of industry, Luca de Meo is also a creative, committed, passionate and inspiring individual. Today, the entire company joins me in thanking him for all these years and all the collective challenges successfully met. On a personal level, I will always remember the quality of our relations during this unforgettable journey. This also gives me the opportunity to warmly thank the Group’s employees who have worked alongside us for the recovery of this emblematic company that we are all so proud of.”

The Renault Group board has already begun a succession plan that will lead to the appointment of a new CEO and expressed its ‘confidence in the quality and experience of the management team to continue and accelerate Renault Group’s transformation strategy into this new phase’.

Luca de Meo commented: “There comes a time in one’s life when one knows the job is done. At Renault Group, we have faced immense challenges in less than five years! We have achieved what many thought impossible. Today, the results speak for themselves: they are the best in our history. We have a strong team and an agile organization. We also have a strategic plan ready for the next generation of products. That is why I have decided it is time for me to hand over the baton. I am leaving a transformed company, poised for the future, to apply my experience to other sectors and embark on new adventures.

“Leading Renault Group has been a privilege. It has been a human and industrial adventure that only happens once in a lifetime. For this, I will always be grateful to the women and men of this company – the ‘Renaulutionnaires’ – for their passion, their commitment and their conviction. They are the true driving engines. Moreover, I would like to thank Jean-Dominique Senard for choosing me several years ago, for his support and trust, as well as the Board of Directors, for believing in our projects. And the best is yet to come…”

Renault is well-known as a dependable provider of commercial vehicles and vans as base vehicles to the leisure vehicle industry including models such as the Master and the Trafic.

Main photo © Augustin DETIENNE / Renault Group.