Ernest-Antoine Seillière
| Ernest-Antoine Seillière link Geni IMDB (Millionaire, businessman) | |
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| Born | Ernest-Antoine Seillière de Laborde 20 December 1937 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | Sciences Po, ÉNA |
| Religion | Catholic |
| Children | 5, including, Joséphine Missoffe |
Criminal convictions | tax fraud |
French businessman and business lobby leader, Bilderberg/Steering committee, Le Siècle | |
Ernest-Antoine Seillière de Laborde is a French businessman and the heir to the industrialist Wendel empire (representing €730 million).[1] He is a member of Le Siècle and a former member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group and participated in all their conferences between 1979 and 1987 as well as 1992 and 2002. He was convicted of tax fraud in 2022.
Background
The Wendel family is a family of steel-making industrialists from the Lorraine region of France. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the family gained both industrial and political power. As a result, the family also seen as an icon of French capitalism. Following the nationalization of the French steel industry in 1978, the family formed a successful investment company (Wendel Investissement). The family owns a significant stake in Wendel S.A.
Education
He graduated from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, studying in law and a former pupil of the École nationale d'administration.
Career
He was Vice President of the CNPF and member of its executive council from 1988 to 1997, President of the economic commission of the CNPF from 1988 to 1994, he became president of Medef (formerly CNPF) from December 1997 to 5 June 2005. He was CEO of Wendel, a holding company for the CGIP, chairman of the Supervisory Board from 2002 to March 2013, Honorary chairman since then.[2] Seillière is close to the Traditionalist Catholics, in particular of the abbé Laguérie.[3]
He succeeded Jean Gandois as leader of the CNPF in December 1997, after the dismissal of the appeal to cut the weekly working hours to 35 by the Lionel Jospin government. The union then took a more conservative direction, which was led by Denis Kessler, and changed its name. He retired after seven years as leader. Laurence Parisot succeeded him on 5 July 2005. Since 2005, Ernest-Antoine Seillière has been President of UNICE (renamed "BusinessEurope" in Januaary 2007), the federation of European business, based in Brussels.[4][5]
He is a former member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group and participated in all their conferences between 1979 and 1987 as well as 1992 and 2002.[6]
In 2022, he was given a three-year suspended prison sentence along with the maximum fine allowed by law at that time for his participation in a tax evasion scheme at the Wendell group in 2007.[7]
He is an officer of the Légion d'honneur, and an officer of the Ordre National du Mérite.
References
- ↑ https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/09/PINCON/8077
- ↑ https://bourse.lefigaro.fr/
- ↑ Le Figaro, 24 September 2007 (article on the ordination of priests by Laguérie)
- ↑ http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/acheter.cgi?offre=ARCHIVES&type_item=ART_ARCH_30J&objet_id=1034441&clef=ARC-TRK-D_01#ens_id=1040219
- ↑ https://archive.today/20120605000607/http://www.eas-livre.fr/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090630013226/http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/former-steering-committee-members.html
- ↑ Template:Url
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