Étienne Davignon
Etienne Davignon is one of the six most central members of the Transnational Elite.[1]
Davignon is closely associated with the promotion 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]
Affiliations
- European Institute
- Friends of Europe, President
- Chairman of Compagnie Maritime Belge, Compagnie des Wagons-Lits, Recticel*, Sibeka, SN Airholding and Palais des Beaux-Arts (Belgium), Vice-Chairman of SUEZ-TRACTEBEL (Belgium), Director of Accor* (France), Cumerio, Real Software, Sofina SA*, SN Brussels Airlines (Belgium), and Gilead* (United States). [3]
- Chairman of Bilderberg Group.
- Chairman of CSR Europe.
- Member of the board of Suez. According to the Suez website, Davignon holds 11,111 Suez shares, which are currently worth more than 350,000 euro.
- Special adviser to the Development Commissioner Louis Michel.
External resources
- Corporate European Observatory Viscount Etienne Davignon Curriculum Vitae, accessed 21 August 2007.
Notes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Barroso Speech
- ↑ Source: CV on Suez website, accessed 29 March 2007.
