Christophe Fouquet

Christophe Fouquet is President & CEO of ASML, a leading lithography supplier to the semiconductor industry.

A French national, he joined ASML in 2008. He was appointed to the Board of Management in 2018 as Chief Business Officer and appointed President & Chief Executive Officer in 2024.

Previously, he led ASML’s EUV business from 2018 to 2022, spearheading the industrialization of Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, and ASML’s Applications business from 2013 to 2018.

Christophe holds a Masters’ degree in physics from the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France and has more than 25 years’ experience in the Semiconductor Industry.

Prior to his 16-year tenure at ASML, Christophe worked at semiconductor equipment industry peers KLA Tencor and Applied Materials.

Setting the strategic direction and leading ASML’s Board of Management, Christophe is a firm believer in putting the customer at the center of everything that ASML does, and in empowering its global team of more than 44,000 people to take ownership and to always ask: What’s next?