European Round Table of Industrialists

European Round Table of Industrialists
(Lobby)
European Round Table of Industrialists ; (Lobby)
Abbreviation	ERTI
Formation	1 June 1983
Leader	European Round Table of Industrialists/Chairman;
Subpage	•European Round Table of Industrialists/Chairman;
Membership	• Torvild Aakvaag; • Paul Adams; • Giovanni Agnelli; • Umberto Agnelli; • César Alierta Izuel; • Américo Amorim; • Nils S. Andersen; • Belmiro de Azevedo; • Percy Barnevik; • Álvaro Barreto; • Peter Baxendell; • Jean-Louis Beffa; • Wulf Bernotat; • Georges Besse; • Marcus Bierich; • Yves Boël; • Vincent Bolloré; • Peter Bonfield; • Cor Boonstra; • Jean-François van Boxmeer; • Carlo Bozotti; • Peter Brabeck-Letmathe; • Werner Breitschwerdt; • Thierry Breton; • Nigel Broackes; • Martin Broughton; • Antonio Brufau; • Antony Burgmans; • Simon Cairns; • John Clark; • Roberto Colaninno; • Vittorio Colao; • Bertrand Collomb; • François Cornélis; • Alfonso Cortina; • Gerhard Cromme; • Dimitris Daskalopoulos; • Etienne Davignon; • Carlo De Benedetti; • Rodolfo De Benedetti; • David de Pury; • Pierre de Tillesse; • Wisse Dekker; • Adolphe Demeure de Lespaul; • Thierry Desmarest; • Kenneth Durham; • Bülent Eczacibaşi; • Casimir Ehrnrooth; • John Elkann; • Roger Fauroux; • Jean-René Fourtou; • Paolo Fresco; • Raul Gardini; • José Antonio Garrido; • Christopher Gent; • Fritz Gerber; • Alain Gomez; • Klaus Götte; • Pehr Gyllenhammar; • Ronald Hampel; • Bernard Hanon; • Jukka Härmälä; • Ulrich Hartmann; • John Harvey-Jones; • Patrick Hayes; • Denys Henderson; • Cornelius Herkströter; • Zsolt Hernádi; • Wolfgang Hilger; • Robert Horton; • Franz Humer; • Daniel Janssen; • Leif Johansson; • Alain Joly; • Henning Kagermann; • Kari Kairamo; • Jak Kamhi; • Karlheinz Kaske; • Klaus Kleinfeld; • Gerard Kleisterlee; • Heinz Kriwet; • Jean-Luc Lagardère; • Olivier Lecerf; • David Lees; • André Leysen; • Thomas Leysen; • Klaus Liesen; • Göran Lindahl; • Flemming Lindeløv; • Ian MacGregor; • Luis Magaña; • Floris Maljers; • Pietro Marzotto; • Helmut Maucher; • Maersk Mc Kinney Møller; • Gary McGann; • Tom McKillop; • Hans Merkle; • Gérard Mestrallet; • Aloïs Michielsen; • Thomas Middelhoff; • Charles Miller Smith; • Brian Moffat; • Jérôme Monod; • Mark Moody-Stuart; • Egil Myklebust; • Curt Nicolin; • Harald Norvik; • Jorma Ollila; • François-Xavier Ortoli; • Théodore D. Papalexopoulos; • Jean-Paul Parayre; • Antony Pilkington; • Bernd Pischetsrieder; • Pasquale Pistorio; • Manuel Pizarro; • Louis von Planta; • Hasso Plattner; • Lars Ramqvist; • Eivind Reiten; • Edzard Reuter; • Antoine Riboud; • Franck Riboud; • Kai-Uwe Ricke; • Cesare Romiti; • John Rose; • James Ross; • Nigel Rudd; • Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer; • Anthony Ruys; • Tony Ryan; • Paolo Scaroni; • Paolo Scaroni; • Richard Schenz; • Stephan Schmidheiny; • Manfred Schneider; • Robert Scholey; • Jürgen Schrempp; • Louis Schweitzer; • Wolfgang Seelig; • Michael Sekyra; • Patrick Sheehy; • David Simon; • George Simpson; • Paul Skinner; • Michael Smurfit; • Luis Solana; • Jacques Solvay; • Ron Sommer; • Dieter Spethmann; • Peter Sutherland; • Poul J. Svanholm; • Morris Tabaksblat; • Josef Taus; • Serge Tchuruk; • Jan Timmer; • Marco Tronchetti Provera; • Heinrich v. Pierer; • Cornelis van der Klugt; • Jeroen van der Veer; • Cees van Lede; • Lo Van Wachem; • Cándido Velázquez; • Ben Verwaayen; • Jacopo Vittorelli; • Simo Vuorilehto; • Jacob Wallenberg; • Marcus Wallenberg (born 1956); • Paul Walsh; • Philip Watts; • Jürgen Weber; • Hans Wijers; • Mark Wössner; • Jean-François van Boxmeer; • Dimitri Papalexopoulos; • Benoît Potier; • Hilde Merete Aasheim; • Jean-Paul Agon; • Zoltán Áldott; • José María Álvarez-Pallete; • Nils S. Andersen; • Paulo Azevedo; • Guido Barilla; • Ben van Beurden; • Martin Brudermüller; • Paul Bulcke; • Pierre-André de Chalendar; • Jean-Pierre Clamadieu; • Iain Conn; • Ian Davis; • Rodolfo De Benedetti; • Claudio Descalzi; • Wolfgang Eder; • Henrik Ehrnrooth; • Börje Ekholm; • Christoph Franz; • Ignacio S. Galán; • Paul Hermelin; • Timotheus Höttges; • Frans van Houten; • Pablo Isla; • Jean-Sébastien Jacques; • Jan Jenisch; • Leif Johansson; • Ilham Kadri; • Joe Kaeser; • Guido Kerkhoff; • Harald Krüger; • Dominique Leroy; • Thomas Leysen; • Helge Lund; • Martin Lundstedt; • Bill McDermott; • Nancy McKinstry; • Florent Menegaux; • Lakshmi N. Mittal; • S tefan Oschmann; • Rafael del Pino; • Patrick Pouyanné; • Alessandro Profumo; • Nick Read; • Stéphane Richard; • Gianfelice Rocca; • Güler Sabanci; • Jean-Dominique Senard; • Risto Siilasmaa; • Søren Skou; • Tony Smurfit; • Johannes Teyssen; • Hans Van Bylen; • Svein Richard Brandtzæg

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^[1] 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)

As can be expected from such an exclusive lobbying group^[2], there is a significant overlap with Bilderberg. Remember that there has been a lot of overlap over the years including now retired members of both networks. (Active/blue links to other Wikispooks pages essentially mean they have been to one or more Bilderberg conferences).