Muriel Pénicaud, Minister of Labour of France; and Mark
Schneider, Chief Executive Officer of Nestlé, Switzerland, will join the Board
of Trustees of the World Economic Forum. Both have a track record of thought
leadership and long-term success in their field, which will contribute to
strengthening the Forum’s platform for public-private cooperation.
Muriel Pénicaud has been Minister of Labour in the Édouard Philippe
government under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron since May 2017. Previously,
She led Invest in France Agency (IFA), and the French Agency for International
Business Development (UBIFRANCE), which merged in 2015 to form Business France.
There, she served as its Chief Executive Officer until 2017. Prior to that, she
held senior management positions, including General Manager of Human Resources
at Danone Group (2008-2014) and Assistant General Manager of Dassault Systèmes
(2002-2008). Since 2014, Pénicaud has been France’s Ambassador for
International Investment. She has served on several boards, including Orange,
SNCF and Aéroports de Paris. Pénicaud is a recipient of the French Legion of
Honour and National Order of Merit. She holds degrees in History, Educational
Sciences and Clinical Psychology, and is an Executive Alumna of INSEAD Business
School.
Mark Schneider has served as Chief Executive Officer of Nestlé since
January 2017. Before joining Nestlé, Schneider was Chief Executive Officer of
the Fresenius Group, a position he held from 2003 to 2016. He joined Fresenius
in 2001 as Chief Financial Officer of Fresenius Medical Care. Previously, he
held several senior executive positions with the Haniel Group, a
privately-held, diversified German multinational company. Schneider has a
graduate degree in Finance and Accounting and a doctoral degree in Business
Administration from the University of St Gallen, Switzerland. He also holds an
MBA from Harvard University.
“The World Economic Forum, as the International Organization for Public-Private
Cooperation, is delighted to welcome Muriel Pénicaud and Mark Schneider to its
Board of Trustees. We look forward to working together to deliver positive,
transformative solutions to our most critical global, regional and industry challenges,”
said Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum.
As of 15 November 2019, the Members of the Board of Trustees of the World
Economic Forum are:
Klaus
SCHWAB*
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, World Economic Forum
Peter
BRABECK-LETMATHE*
Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees, World Economic Forum
Mukesh AMBANI
Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries, India
Marc
BENIOFF
Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Salesforce, USA
Mark
CARNEY
Governor of the Bank of England
Laurence D.
FINK
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock, Inc.
Chrystia FREELAND
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada
Orit
GADIESH**
Chairman, Bain & Company, USA
Fabiola
GIANOTTI
Director-General, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva
Al GORE Vice-President of the United States (1993-2001); Chairman and Co-Founder, Generation Investment Management, USA
Herman
GREF
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Sberbank, Russian Federation
Angel GURRÍA
Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD), Paris
André
HOFFMANN
Non-Executive Vice-Chairman, Roche Holding Ltd., Switzerland
Christine LAGARDE
President, European Central Bank
(ECB), Frankfurt
Jack MA
Alibaba Board of Directors, Alibaba Group, People’s Republic of
China
Yo-Yo MA
Cellist
Peter MAURER
President,
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Switzerland
Luis MORENO**
President,
Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC
Muriel
PÉNICAUD
Minister of Labour of France
H.M. Queen Rania AL ABDULLAH of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
L. Rafael REIF
President,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
David M.
RUBENSTEIN
Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman, Carlyle Group, USA
Mark
SCHNEIDER
Chief Executive Officer, Nestlé SA, Switzerland
Tharman SHANMUGARATNAM Senior Minister and Coordinating
Minister for Social Policies of Singapore
Jim Hagemann
SNABE
Chairman, Supervisory Board, Siemens AG, Germany; Chairman, A.P. Møller-Maersk,
Denmark
Feike SYBESMA
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM,
Netherlands
Heizo TAKENAKA**
Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal
Policy of Japan (2002-2006)
Min ZHU*
President, National Institute of Financial Research, People’s Republic
of China; Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC
(2011-2016)