European Round Table of Industrialists

European Round Table of Industrialists   (Lobby)
Formation	1 June 1983
Subpage	•European Round Table of Industrialists/Chairman

The European Round Table of Industrialists, (ERT), is a lobby group in the European Union consisting of some 50 European industrial leaders working to strengthen the political position of big business in Europe. The group works at both national and European levels, and has been especially successful in influencing the making of EU policies.

The roots of the European Round Table of Industrialists date back to the early 1980s. At the initiative of Pehr G. Gyllenhammar, the CEO of Volvo, 17 European businessmen met in the Paris boardroom of Volvo on 6 and 7 April 1983. They envisioned to create an organisation, which would be able to convey its message about the state of the economy to the European political leaders.

The meeting in Paris was attended by Pehr G. Gyllenhammar (Volvo), Karl Beurle (Thyssen), Carlo De Benedetti (Olivetti), Curt Nicolin ([[ASEA[]]), Harry Gray (United Technologies), John Harvey-Jones (ICI), Wolfgang Seelig (Siemens), Umberto Agnelli (Fiat), Peter Baxendell (Shell), Olivier Lecerf (Lafarge), José Bidegain (Cie de St Gobain), Wisse Dekker (Philips), Antoine Riboud (BSN), Bernard Hanon (Renault), Louis von Planta (Ciba-Geigy) and Helmut Maucher (Nestlé). Both François-Xavier Ortoli and Étienne Davignon from the European Commission attended the meeting.

From early on, ERT policy supported EU enlargement. It promoted and often led business dialogues between the EU and business circles in the US and in Japan as well as in developing countries.

==Current Members (2019)==[1] As can be expected from such an exlusive lobbying club, there is a significant overlap with Bilderberg. Members include:

Carl-Henric Svanberg (Volvo), Jean-François van Boxmeer (Heineken),Rodolfo De Benedetti (CIR),Jacob Wallenberg (Investor AB)

Chairman

• Carl-Henric Svanberg

AB Volvo Sweden

Vice-Chairmen

• Jean-François van Boxmeer

HEINEKEN The Netherlands

• Dimitri Papalexopoulos

Titan Cement Greece

Past Chairman

• Benoît Potier

Air Liquide France

Members

• Hilde Merete Aasheim

Norsk Hydro Norway

• Jean-Paul Agon

L'Oréal France

• Zoltán Áldott

MOL Hungary

• José María Álvarez-Pallete

Telefónica Spain

• Nils S. Andersen

AkzoNobel The Netherlands

• Paulo Azevedo

Sonae Portugal

• Guido Barilla

Barilla Group Italy

• Ben van Beurden

Royal Dutch Shell The Netherlands

• Martin Brudermüller

BASF Germany

• Paul Bulcke

Nestlé Switzerland

• Pierre-André de Chalendar

Saint-Gobain France

• Jean-Pierre Clamadieu

ENGIE France

• Iain Conn

Centrica United Kingdom

• Ian Davis

Rolls-Royce United Kingdom

• Rodolfo De Benedetti

CIR Italy

• Claudio Descalzi

Eni Italy

• Wolfgang Eder

voestalpine Austria

• Henrik Ehrnrooth

KONE Finland

• Börje Ekholm

Ericsson Sweden

• Christoph Franz

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Switzerland

• Ignacio S. Galán

Iberdrola Spain

• Paul Hermelin

Capgemini France

• Timotheus Höttges

Deutsche Telekom Germany

• Frans van Houten

Royal Philips The Netherlands

• Pablo Isla

Inditex Spain

• Jean-Sébastien Jacques

Rio Tinto United Kingdom

• Jan Jenisch

LafargeHolcim Switzerland

• Leif Johansson

AstraZeneca United Kingdom

• Ilham Kadri

Solvay Belgium

• Joe Kaeser

Siemens Germany

• Guido Kerkhoff

thyssenkrupp Germany

• Harald Krüger

BMW Group Germany

• Dominique Leroy

Proximus Belgium

• Thomas Leysen

Umicore Belgium

• Helge Lund

BP United Kingdom

• [Martin Lundstedt

AB Volvo Sweden

• Bill McDermott

SAP Germany

• Nancy McKinstry

Wolters Kluwer The Netherlands

• Florent Menegaux

Michelin France

• Lakshmi N. Mittal

ArcelorMittal United Kingdom

• Stefan Oschmann

Merck Group Germany

• Rafael del Pino

Ferrovial Spain

• Patrick Pouyanné

Total France

• Alessandro Profumo

Leonardo Italy

• Nick Read

Vodafone Group United Kingdom

• Stéphane Richard

Orange France

• Gianfelice Rocca

Techint Group of Companies Italy

• Güler Sabanci

Sabanci Holding Turkey

• Jean-Dominique Senard

Renault France

• Risto Siilasmaa

Nokia Finland

• Søren Skou

A.P. Møller-Mærsk Denmark

• Tony Smurfit

Smurfit Kappa Group Ireland

• Johannes Teyssen

E.ON Germany

• Hans Van Bylen

Henkel Germany

• Jacob Wallenberg

Investor AB Sweden

 

Known members

96 of the 225 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Torvild Aakvaag	Single Bilderberg Director General of Norsk Hydro
Gianni Agnelli	Italian industrialist, 37 Bilderbergs
Umberto Agnelli	Italian business magnate with multiple deep state connections including the Bilderberg Steering committee.
Percy Barnevik	Bilderberg Steering committee member in the Wallenberg Sphere
Rodolfo de Bendetti	Double Bilderberg Italian deep state connected businessman
Carlo De Benedetti
Ben van Beurden	Penta Bilderberger, attended the WEF/Annual Meeting/2020, Shell CEO, European Round Table of Industrialists
Vincent Bolloré	French industrialist, businessman, media owner and billionaire. grandmother a spy. Started his career at the [Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild
Jean-François van Boxmeer	Belgian Bilderberg businessman, regular at WEF AGMs, Heineken CEO 2005-2020
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe	Nestlé executive who attended the 2011 Bilderberg. Wants to privatize and charge for all water in the world.
Svein Richard Brandtzæg	Member of the Bilderberg Steering committee.
Thierry Breton	French politician and leader of large corporations, briefly at Rothschild & Cie Banque. WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1998. From 2019 European Commissioner implementing censorship.
Martin Brudermüller	German Bilderberger businessman, WEF AGM habit, CEO of BASF since 2018. Predicted EU ban on Russian gas imports would destroy the German economy.
Antony Burgmans	Dutch businessman
Pierre-André de Chalendar	Double Bilderberg French businessman.
Vittorio Colao	Bilderberger Vodafone/CEO who was given charge of the Italian COVID Lockdown
Bertrand Collomb	Connected French businessman. 13 Bilderbergs.
Gerhard Cromme	Deep state connected German businessman visitor to the Bilderberg 2000
Étienne Davignon	Belgian deep politician, EU commissioner, Bilderberg chairman, Egmont Institute president
Ian Davis	English businessman associated with McKinsey & Company. Attended Bilderberg/2013.
Wisse Dekker	Philips CEO 1982-1986. From 1988 to 1992, he chaired the European Round Table of Industrialists.
Casimir Ehrnrooth	Finnish financier, Bilderberg 1989. One son also a Bilderberger
Henrik Ehrnrooth	Big money second generation Finnish Bilderberger
Börje Ekholm	Wallenberg Sphere businessman, succeeded fellow Bilderberger Marcus Wallenberg as CEO of Investor AB. Then CEO of Ericsson.
John Elkann	Italian/US billionaire businessman with heavy Bilderberg habit. 21st Century Council, European Round Table of Industrialists
Christoph Franz	Lufthansa CEO, One Bilderberg, called for mandation of COVID-19 vaccines in April 2021.
Paolo Fresco	Italian Bilderberg businessman. Ex Fiat Chairman
Raul Gardini	ERTI scandal ridden Italian businessman who "died by a dubious suicide"
Alain Gomez	Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Group when he attended the 1983 Bilderberg
Pehr G. Gyllenhammar	Swedish CEO, European Round Table of Industrialists, Banque Rothschild, with deep state ties
John Harvey-Jones	UK spook, media operative and businessman. Participated in the 1983 foundation meeting of European Round Table of Industrialists
Paul Hermelin	French double Bilderberger businessman
Robert Horton	UK businessman who attended the 1990 Bilderberg as BP CEO.
Jukka Härmälä	One of the key players in the Finnish economy. As CEO arranged for one of the largest and most unsuccessful acquisitions in Finnish economic history, with a loss of EUR 5 billion. He also enjoys the largest pension in Finland.
Timotheus Höttges	German telecom executive
Pablo Isla	Chairman and CEO of Inditex (Zara) the largest clothes corporation in the world.
Daniel Janssen	Bilderberg Steering committee Belgian business leader
Leif Johansson	Swedish businessman and son of Bilderberger. Attended 2 successive Bilderbergs. AstraZeneca Chairman.
Ilham Kadri	Big Chem executive who attended the 2024 Bilderberg conference.
Joe Kaeser	German businessman Bilderberger
Kari Kairamo	A Finnish businessman who reportedly hung himself, something his company, Nokia initially lied about.
Jak Kamhi	Turkish Bilderberger businessman
Karlheinz Kaske	CEO of Siemens AG for 11 years. Attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1980s
Klaus Kleinfeld	US/German businessman. Bilderberg steering committee, CFR, ERTI
Gerard J. Kleisterlee	Dutch businessman, Tafelronde
Thomas Leysen	Bilderberg Steering Committee Member. Trilateral Commission.
Klaus Liesen	One of the ten most powerful "grey eminences" in the German economy. Bilderberg/1981
Helge Lund	chairman of BP, 2019 Bilderberg, failing upwards
Martin Lundstedt	President and CEO of car and truck manufacturer Volvo Group since 2015. He attended the 2022 Bilderberg meeting.
Ian MacGregor	Scottish/US businessman chaired British Steel Corporation 1980-83, National Coal Board 1983-86
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