Paul Polman

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(businessman)
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BornPaulus Gerardus Josephus Maria Polman
11 July 1956
Enschede, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Alma materUniversity of Groningen, University of Cincinnati
Children3
SpouseKim Polman
Member ofAtlantic Council/Distinguished Leadership Awards, Dow Chemical, Lancet/COVID-19 Commission, Rockefeller Foundation
Bilderberger who was made a member of the Lancet Commission on COVID-19

Employment.png Chief executive officer

In office
2009 - December 2018
EmployerUnilever

Paulus Gerardus Josephus Maria Polman is a Dutch businessman. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of the British/Dutch junk food and chemical company Unilever, and attended the 2012 Bilderberg meeting. He was made a member of the Lancet Commission on COVID-19, is on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation, and, like many Bilderbergers, has been heavily involved in "climate change" agendas.

Career

Polman worked for Procter & Gamble for 27 years, starting in 1979 as a cost analyst, becoming managing director of P&G U.K. from 1995 to 1998, president of global fabric care from 1998 to 2001, and group president for Europe in 2001.[1]

Polman then joined Nestlé in 2006 as chief financial officer and in February 2008 became vice president and head of the Americas.[2][3][4]

On 1 January 2009, Polman succeeded Patrick Cescau as chief executive officer of Unilever. Under Polman's leadership, Unilever transformed "into a company utterly committed to broader societal purposes, particularly the fight against climate change and inequality."[5][6]

In 2016, Polman's total compensation was €8.3 million including a basic salary of €1.2million and other benefits (2015, €10.2 million).[7]

Climate change and stakeholder capitalism

In 2019, he co-founded a new organization called IMAGINE with Jeff Seabright (formerly the Chief Sustainability Officer of Unilever) and Kees Kruythoff, to help businesses "eradicate poverty and inequality, and stem runaway climate change."[8] Polman is also an active Venture Capital investor having participated in several high profile fundraises for climate and mission focused companies.[9] As a result of his work championing causes around climate change, inequality, and sustainability[10], Polman has become a prominent global figure in the push for stakeholder capitalism.[5]

Polman is a former [11] chair of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and sat on the board of directors of the Consumer Goods Forum,[12] leading its sustainability efforts. He is also a member of board of the UN Global Compact.[13] At the invitation of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Polman served as one of the 27 members of the UN High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. At the invitation of former Mexican President, Felipe Calderón, Polman served on the International Council of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate.[14]

Polman co-founded the Dutch Sustainable Growth Coalition, led by former Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende. He is a member of the World Economic Forum International Business Council,[15] the Global Taskforce for Scaling up Nutrition (SUN)[16] and was part of the European Resource Efficiency Platform Working Group,[17] chaired by European Commissioner Janez Potočnik. He was co-chair of the World Economic Forum 2012.

He is a counsellor of One Young World[18] and trustee of the Leverhulme Trust. Polman was co-chair of the B-20 Food Security Taskforce.[19] He formerly served on the boards of Dow and Alcon. Polman is also part of the Leadership Vanguard, an initiative that seeks to identify, support and mobilise the next generation of leaders, focuses on redefining value.[20] He has been a member of IESE's International Advisory Board (IAB)[21] since 2015.

In 2016 Polman was selected by former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon to be an SDG Advocate, tasked with helping build widespread support for the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.[22] He was again appointed in 2019 by the current Secretary-General António Guterres.[23]

Polman is co-chair of the Global Commission for the Economy and Climate, with Nicholas Stern and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.[24]

He is a member of The B Team, chairing the group from August 2018 to September 2021.[25]

In 2019 Polman was appointed as Chair of the Board for University of Oxford, Saїd Business School.[26]


 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/201231 May 20123 June 2012US
Virginia
Chantilly		The 58th Bilderberg, in Chantilly, Virginia. Unusually just 4 years after an earlier Bilderberg meeting there.
WEF/Annual Meeting/201126 January 201130 January 2011World Economic Forum
Switzerland		2229 guests in Davos, with the theme: "Shared Norms for the New Reality".
WEF/Annual Meeting/201225 January 201229 January 2012Switzerland2113 guests in Davos
WEF/Annual Meeting/201323 January 201327 January 2013World Economic Forum
Switzerland		2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity"
WEF/Annual Meeting/201422 January 201425 January 2014World Economic Forum
Switzerland		2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World"
WEF/Annual Meeting/201620 January 201623 January 2016World Economic Forum
Switzerland		Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values".
WEF/Annual Meeting/201717 January 201720 January 2017World Economic Forum
Switzerland		2950 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership."
WEF/Annual Meeting/201922 January 201925 January 2019World Economic Forum
Switzerland		"The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one."
WEF/Annual Meeting/202021 January 202024 January 2020World Economic Forum
Switzerland		This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting.
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References

  1. ↑ https://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2014/02/11/unilever-boss-learned-lessons-from-stint-at-pg/5384259/
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20081118131239/http://www.nestle.com/AllAbout/Governance/NestleManagement/AllCvs/ExecutiveBoard/LuisCANTARELL.htm
  3. ↑ https://www.forbes.com/2007/09/19/paul-polman-nestle-face-cx_ll_0917autofacescan01.html#27acfdbc504b
  4. ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/2795679/Unilever-shares-jump-as-it-poaches-Paul-Polman-as-CEO-from-Nestle.html
  5. ↑ a b https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/ex-unilever-boss-paul-polman-on-doing-the-right-thing-and-making-money-20230527-p5dbq9
  6. ↑ http://www.unilever.com/sustainable-living/
  7. ↑ https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-unilever-salary/unilever-seeks-changes-to-pay-to-give-managers-owners-mindset-idUKKBN1671Q4
  8. ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-04/unilever-s-former-chief-moves-on-with-plan-to-fix-the-world
  9. ↑ https://www.privateequitywire.co.uk/2021/09/15/306168/verlinvest-leads-usd415m-investment-who-gives-crap
  10. ↑ https://iccwbo.org/media-wall/news-speeches/unilever-chief-paul-polman-named-chair-icc-worlds-largest-business-organisation/
  11. ↑ https://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/sunny-verghese-appointed-chairman-world-business-council-sustainable-development-10201749119.html
  12. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120831074012/http://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/1-wweare/1.3-board/index.asp
  13. ↑ http://www.unglobalcompact.org
  14. ↑ http://newclimateeconomy.net
  15. ↑ http://www.weforum.org
  16. ↑ http://scalingupnutrition.org
  17. ↑ http://ec.europa.eu/environment/resource_efficiency/re_platform/
  18. ↑ http://www.oneyoungworld.com
  19. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20131224113131/http://b20.org/security.aspx
  20. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com//sustainable-business/xynteo-partner-zone/2014/nov/12/paul-polman-leverage-the-young-to-drive-change
  21. ↑ [https://www.iese.edu/about/leadership/
  22. ↑ https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2016/01/sdg-advocates-press-release
  23. ↑ https://www.globalgoals.org/news/secretary-general-antonio-guterres-has-appointed-new
  24. ↑ http://newclimateeconomy.net/about/members-global-commission/ |title=Members of the Global Commission
  25. ↑ https://bteam.org/our-thinking/news/the-b-team-welcomes-new-ceo-chair-and-vice-chair%7Caccess-date=2021-12-08
  26. ↑ https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/news/said-business-school-announces-paul-polman-board-chair
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