{"id":71889,"date":"2025-10-23T11:07:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/?p=71889"},"modified":"2025-10-23T17:46:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:46:53","slug":"alexandre-malval-appointed-design-vice-president-renault-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/2025\/10\/alexandre-malval-appointed-design-vice-president-renault-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"ALEXANDRE MALVAL APPOINTED DESIGN VICE PRESIDENT RENAULT BRAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1216.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Alexandre Malval has been appointed Design Vice President of the Renault brand. He will take up his position on January 2 and will report to Laurens van den Acker, Chief Design Officer and member of the Renault Group Leadership Team. He will also join the Renault brand management committee. \u201cWe are very pleased to welcome Alexandre Malval to our design team,\u201d said Van den Acker. \u201cHis experience with major automotive groups, his international vision, and his ability to create strong design-led brands will be essential assets in taking Renault to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Malval, 55, graduated from the Royal College of Art in London. He began his career at Renault in 1994 in the Advanced Design department, exploring new concepts as an exterior designer before joining the Volkswagen Group&#8217;s Design Center Europe in Barcelona in 1996. There, he worked on numerous projects for the Audi and Volkswagen brands. In 2001, he joined the Citro\u00ebn Creation Center in Paris, then moved to Peugeot, before becoming head of design at Citro\u00ebn in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2018, Alexandre Malval has been CEO and Design Director of the Mercedes-Benz International Design Center Europe in Sophia Antipolis. This satellite studio is dedicated to advanced design and the development of production vehicles for Mercedes-Benz, Maybach, Smart, and AMG.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":71886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3220,1393],"class_list":["post-71889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-alexandre-malval-en","tag-renault-design-en"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 13:39:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71893,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71889\/revisions\/71893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}