Viscount
Etienne Davignon (Belgium)
Viscount Etienne Davignon is a Belgian Minister of State and President of the Belgian Royal Institute for International Relations. Previously, he held various high-level positions in the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before becoming European Economic Community Vice President in charge of industry, research and energy from 1977-1984.Viscount Davignon has had a successful career in the private sector as well, serving as Chairman and then Vice-Chairman of Société Générale de Belgique, Belgium's leading holding company. He is currently Vice-Chairman of Suez-Tractebel and of Umicore and is a member of the Board of several multinational companies, including Accor, Suez, and Sofina. He is also Chairman of the Paul-Henri Spaak Foundation and of the "Palais des Beaux-Arts" and is Chairman of the Board of the Institut Catholique des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Brussels.
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- Lisa Anderson (U.S.)>
- H.E. Ambassador Nassir Abdelaziz Al-Nasser (Qatar) >
- Mohammed Arkoun (Algeria/ France)>
- Hoda Badran (Egypt)>
- John Brademas (U.S.)>
- Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (France)>
- Reis-ul-Ulema Mustafa Ceric (Bosnia)>
- Viscount Etienne Davignon (Belgium)>
- Richard Haass (U.S.)>
- HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal>
- Tony Judt (U.S./U.K.)>
- Farooq Kathwari (U.S.)>
- Bob Kerrey (U.S.)>
- Maleeha Lodhi (Pakistan)>
- Chandra Muzaffar (Malaysia)>
- Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (U.K.)>
- Farhan A. Nizami (India/U.K.)>
- Thoraya Obaid (Saudi Arabia)>
- Seyed Mohammad Kazem Sajjadpour (Iran)>
- Eduardo Serra Rexach (Spain)>
- Frank Wisner (U.S.)>
- Mortimer B. Zuckerman (U.S.)>
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European and International Affairs > - Carnegie Corporation>
- Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs >
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France >
- Farooq Kathwari >
- El legado andalusí >
- The MacArthur Foundation>
- Majlis El Hassan >
- Malaysia >
- The Netherlands Ministry of
Foreign Affairs > - State of Qatar >
- Qatar Foundation >
- The Rockefeller Brothers Fund>
- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia >
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom >
- Mortimer B. Zuckerman >
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- Richard Bulliet, Senior Academic Advisor to the Director (U.S.) >
- Andrea Stanton, Assistant Director >
- Shara Kay, Consulting Editor >
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