Philippe Bodson
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Education
He graduated as civil engineer at the University of LiègeUniversity of Liège
The University of Liège , in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium, is a major public university in the French Community of Belgium. Its official language is French.-History:...
(ULg) and obtained a Master of Business Administration at INSEAD
INSEAD
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(Fontainebleau
Fontainebleau
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, France
France
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Career
He started his career at McKinsey in ParisParis
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where he worked for three years. He then worked for four years for the Daus Bank in Germany
Germany
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and the USA. 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
Fortis (finance)
Fortis N.V./S.A. was a company active in insurance, banking and investment management. In 2007 it was the 20th largest business in the world by revenue but after encountering severe problems in the financial crisis of 2008, most of the company was sold in parts, with only insurance activities...
. From 1999 until 2003, he was a senator in the Belgian Senate
Belgian Senate
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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
Lernout & Hauspie
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, or L&H, was a leading Belgium-based speech recognition technology company, founded by Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie, that went bankrupt in 2001...
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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
Think tank
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Coudenberg group
Coudenberg group
The Coudenberg group was a Belgian federalist think-tank, it was named after the place where the members met, the Coudenberg, one of the seven hillocks on which the centre of Brussels has been built...
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