Christian Jourquin

Christian Jourquin is a Belgian businessman and since May 2006 Chief Executive Officer of Solvay a Belgian chemical and pharmaceutical company.

Education

He graduated in Commercial Engineering at the Solvay Business School of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium). In addition he graduated from the International Senior Management Program of the Harvard Business School (USA).

Career

He started his professional career at Solvay in 1971 and has worked for the group ever since. In 1971, he started his career as an Attaché to the Finance Department of Solvay at the Italian Headquarters in Milan. Between 1980 and 1990, he managed Solvay Duphar in the Netherlands, which represented a large part of the international pharmaceutical activities of Solvay. Between 1990 and 1996, he worked for Solvay at the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal), Solvay Interox in 1996 and the Processing Sector of the group from 1997 to 2000. He was General Manager of the Chemicals Sector at Solvay SA until April 30, 2006 and since May 2006 he is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Solvay SA. He also serves as Director of Solvay America, Inc.

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Name	Jourquin, Christian
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