Globalisation:CSR Europe:People
Etienne Davignon
Viscount Etienne Davignon was born in 1932 and is the current President of CSR Europe. He is also the majority shareholder and Vice-President of Suez, an international industrial and services group which "designs sustainable and innovative solutions in the management of public utilities as a partner of public authorities, businesses and individuals". [1]
In 2007, Davignon was nominated for the Worse EU Lobbying Awards for "advising EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel about African development issues, even though he sits on the board of directors for Suez – a transnational corporation looking to expand its energy and water business into Africa." [2] Though both Etienne Davignon and Louis Michel insisted a conflict of interest did not exist, the Suez website is explicit
- ↑ Suez Profile, Accessed 12 March 2008
- ↑ Corporate Europe Observatory website, Accessed 20 March 2008
