Name Philippe Bodson | Education University of Liege | |
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Books Belgium: Unity in Diversity Born 2 November 1944 (Age 75) Died 4 April 2020 |
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Baron Philippe André Eugène Bodson (2 November 1944 – 4 April 2020) was a Belgian businessman.
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Education
He graduated as civil engineer at the University of Liège (ULg) and obtained a Master of Business Administration at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France)
Career
He started his career at McKinsey in Paris where he worked for three years. He then worked for four years for the Daus Bank in Germany and the United States. In 1977, he started working for Glaverbel, where he would be the CEO from 1980 until 1989. From September 1989 until December 1998, he was a non-executive member of the board of directors of Fortis. From 1999 until 2003, he was a senator in the Belgian Senate for the Mouvement reformateur. Since 2004, he is a Director at Fortis, until 2010. In 2001, he was Chief Executive Officer of Lernout & Hauspie Speech Product.
In addition he is also a member of several other companies, such as: Exmar where he is President of the Board, he is a board member at Ashmore Energy (USA), CIB, President of Floridienne, member of the advice committee of CSFB Europa, Hermes Asset Management Europe Ltd., and of Cobepa/Cobehold. He currently also serves as the President of the BeCapital board, a cleantech private equity founded by Cobepa, Compagnie Financière Benjamin de Rothschild and BeCitizen. In the past he was a member of the think tank Coudenberg group.