Antony Burgmans
 Antony Burgmans     ( businessman) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 13 February 1947 Rotterdam | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | Dutch | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | • Nyenrode Business University • Stockholm University • Lancaster University | |||||||||||||
| Member of | European Round Table of Industrialists | |||||||||||||
Dutch businessman who attended the 2001 and 2004 Bilderberg meetings.
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Antony Bergmans is a Dutch businessman who was non-executive chairman of Unilever from 2005 to 2007,[1] and later chairman of paint company AkzoNobel.[2] He attended the 2001 and 2004 Bilderberg meetings.
Education
Born 13 February 1947, Rotterdam, Burgmans studied business administration at Nyenrode in the Netherlands, and political and social sciences at Stockholm University in Sweden.[3] He then completed a Master of Arts in Marketing at Lancaster University in England.[4]
Career
Burgmans joined Unilever in 1972, working as marketing assistant at Lever, Netherlands on the dishwater detergent Sun. Later, he held marketing and sales positions in the company's detergents businesses in Indonesia and the Netherlands. In 1982, he was appointed marketing and sales director of Lever in the Netherlands and in 1985, became marketing director of Lever Germany.[3] Three years later, he was appointed chairman of PT Unilever Indonesia. In 1991, he became director of Unilever with responsibility for personal care products. Burgmans took over responsibility for Ice Cream and Frozen Foods - Europe in May 1994 and, later that year, was appointed chairman of the Europe Committee, which co-ordinates Unilever's European activities.[3]
In October 1998, he was appointed vice chairman of Unilever N.V. and became chairman of Unilever N.V in May 1999. In May 2005, Burgmans was elected chairman Unilever N.V. and PLC.[citation needed] In January 2007, it was announced that he would be replaced by Michael Treschow upon standing down as Chairman in May 2007.[citation needed]
In May 2017, an Amsterdam court rejected attempts by investors to remove Burgmans from the chairmanship of Akzo Nobel. Burgmans was seen as an obstacle to a takeover bid for the company form PPG.[2]
Other positions
Burgmans also was member of the Supervisory Board of ABN AMRO, a member of the International Advisory Board of Allianz and a non-executive director of BP. He was also co-chairman of the Global Commerce Initiative (GCI) and chairman of the Supervisory Boards of, WWF-Netherlands, the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague and the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam.[5]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2001 | 24 May 2001 | 27 May 2001 | Sweden Stenungsund | The 49th Bilderberg, in Sweden. Reported on the WWW. |
| Bilderberg/2004 | 3 June 2004 | 6 June 2004 | Italy Stresa | The 52nd such meeting. 126 recorded guests |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2004 | 21 January 2004 | 25 January 2004 | Switzerland WEF | 2068 billionaires, CEOs and their politicians and "civil society" leaders met under the slogan Partnering for Prosperity and Security. "We have the people who matter," said World Economic Forum Co-Chief Executive Officer José María Figueres. |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2006 | 25 January 2006 | 29 January 2006 | Switzerland WEF | Both former US president Bill Clinton and Bill Gates pushed for public-private partnerships. Only a few of the over 2000 participants are known. |
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120114233235/http://www.webpronews.com/unilever-makes-big-management-changes-2005-02
- ↑ a b https://www.ft.com/content/b2eded50-449e-11e7-8d27-59b4dd6296b8
- ↑ a b c https://web.archive.org/web/20070603095938/http://www.unilever.com/ourcompany/aboutunilever/companystructure/nonexecutivedirectors/antony_burgmans.asp
- ↑ https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news-archive/D937A15C182FFD2C80256DF300438061.php
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140222044915/http://wwf.panda.org/who_we_are/organization/trustees/antonyburgmans.cfm
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