Ernest-Antoine Seillière
French businessman1
Ernest-Antoine Seillière de Laborde (French pronunciation: [ɛʁnɛstɑ̃twan sɛjɛʁ]; born 20 December 1937) is a French entrepreneur and the heir to the Wendel empire (representing €730 million).2
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Born Dec 20, 1937.1
About
He is a member of Le Siècle think tank, an officer of the Légion d'honneur, and an officer of the Ordre National du Mérite. He was convicted of tax fraud in 2022.
His great-grandfather, Aimé Seillière (1835–1870) was married to Marie de Laborde (1844–1867) in 1865. His paternal grandfather is the French academic Ernest Seillière.
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Companies
- BusinessEuropeChair 2005 to 200912
Early life and education
Career
Occupation: political scientist, official, entrepreneur, politician, businessperson.8
- 2005 to 2009President, BusinessEurope4 5
- 2005 to 2009Chair, BusinessEurope7
- 1998 to 2005President, Mouvement des Entreprises de France4
- 1997 to 1998President, Conseil National du Patronat Français4
- 1997 to 2005Chair, Mouvement des Entreprises de France6
He graduated from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, studying in law and a former pupil of the École nationale d'administration. 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. Seillière is close to the Traditionalist Catholics, in particular of the abbé Laguérie.
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.
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.
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