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.