Étienne Davignon

Davignon was in office at the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1959 to the end of 1976. He then joined the Commission of the European Communities in January 1977 and was subsequently appointed Vice-President for Industry, Research, and Energy from January 1981 to January 1985. In 1985, he joined Société Générale de Belgique, where he became President and later Vice-President in 2001. From 2003 to 2010, he served as Vice-President of Suez-Tractebel.

He is currently President of the CMB Group, Genfina, Recticel, the Palais des Beaux-Arts, the Paul-Henri Spaak Foundation, the Edmont Institute, and ICHEC. He is also a member of the Board of Guarantors at the Royal Sporting Club of Anderlecht and of Gilead.