Étienne Davignon

Etienne Davignon is one of the six most central members of the Transnational Elite.^[1] Davignon is closely associated with the propmotion of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Europe. European Commission President Manuel Barosso, addressing the CSR Europe marketplace on CSR in 2005 credited Davignon as a key driver of the CSR agenda. [2]

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According to Carroll and Carson the other five are Peter Sutherland, Minoro Murofushi, Percy Barnevik Paul Allaire and Bertrand Collomb. See William K. Carroll Colin Carson 'Forging a New Hegemony? The Role of Transnational Policy Groups in the Network and Discourses of Global Corporate Governance'Journal of World systems Research, Vol. 9 No. 1, Winter 2003.