By his own admission, Jean-Dominique Senard, who has the unenviable task of getting Renault’s stuttering alliance with Nissan back on the road, is one of life’s natural worriers.
Yet even Senard has had more than usual to fret about since taking over as chairman of the French car-maker in January, two months after the arrest of a previous CEO,
Carlos Ghosn. The Brazilian-born 65-year-old, who was also chairman of Nissan, has been charged with multiple counts of financial misconduct involving millions of pounds — all of which he denies — and is on bail in Tokyo awaiting trial.
“When I arrived . . . I discovered a situation which was worse than I thought. Honestly,” the urbane Senard, 66, said in an interview last week with journalists at Renault’s…