Viscount Étienne Davignon (Belgium)
Viscount Étienne 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 Vice–President of Umicore and is a member of the Board of several multinational companies, including Suez and Sofina. He is also President of the Paul–Henri Spaak Foundation and of the “Palais des Beaux–Arts” and is the External Representative of the Economic Category of the Haute Ecole of the Institut Catholique des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Brussels. Viscount Davignon also currently serves as President of Friends of Europe.
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- H.E. Ambassador Nassir Abdelaziz Al-Nasser (Qatar) >
- Hoda Badran (Egypt)>
- John Brademas (U.S.)>
- Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (France)>
- Reis-ul-Ulema Mustafa Cerić (Bosnia)>
- Viscount Étienne Davignon (Belgium)>
- Rakhamim Emanuilov (Russia)>
- HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal (Jordan)>
- Farooq Kathwari (U.S.)>
- Maleeha Lodhi (Pakistan)>
- Chandra Muzaffar (Malaysia)>
- Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (U.K.)>
- Farhan A. Nizami (India/U.K.)>
- Thoraya Obaid (Saudi Arabia)>
- Eduardo Serra Rexach (Spain)>
- Seyed Mohammad Kazem Sajjadpour (Iran)>
- Frank Wisner (U.S.)>
- Mortimer B. Zuckerman (U.S.)>
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- Austrian Federal Ministry of
European and International Affairs > - Carnegie Corporation >
- Civilizations Interaction Foundation
- Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs >
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France >
- Farooq Kathwari >
- Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany >
- 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 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose 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 >
- Saumya Kurup, Junior Research Scholar >
- Aubrey Clark-Brown, Junior Research Scholar >
- Samea Shanori, Junior Research Scholar >
- Shara Kay, Consulting Editor >
- Christa Bianchi, Brand Manager, Designer and Developer >
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