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Pierre-Yves Roussel (born November 7th, 1965 in France) is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of LVMH Fashion Group. He is a member of the LVMH Executive Committee since 2004.

After obtaining an MBA from Wharton Business School, he began his career as a financial analyst with the CCF Bank (HSBC) before joining the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., where he had increasing responsibilities before being elected partner in 1998, and then senior partner in 2004.

He joined LVMH in 2004 as Executive Vice President, Strategy and Operations. In 2006 he was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of LVMH Fashion Group, which includes numerous prestigious brands (Céline, Donna Karan, DKNY, Givenchy, Kenzo, Loewe, Marc Jacobs, Pucci, Nicholas Kirkwood and J. W. Anderson).

Pierre-Yves Roussel successfully repositioned and developed several Fashion Houses within LVMH, by appointing and collaborating with very talented Artistic Directors : Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy, Phoebe Philo at Céline , Carol Lim and Humberto Leon at Kenzo, J. W. Anderson at Loewe or in 2015, Dao Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne at Donna Karan …

He is a jury for the LVMH Prize and the ANDAM Fashion Award. He is also a member of the board of the French Haute Couture and Designers Association.