INSEAD - Leadership Summit 2008 - Europe -
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Published on: 1/1/2008
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Claude Janssen
Claude JanssenHonorary Chairman, INSEAD BoardChairman, International Council
After graduating from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and obtaining his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1955, Claude Janssen joined the Worms group, a prominent private French group active in banking, insurance, shipping and industry, where he spent his entire career until 1996, mostly in the banking and international areas.He became one of the four managing partners of the Worms group in 1979.
He has also served on the boards of several corporations throughout his career and is currently a director of Russell Reynolds and Associates, Cie Financière E. de Rothschild, Cie Lebon and Permal Asset Management.
In the late 1950s, he was one of the founders of INSEAD, and became a member of the Advisory Committee (1959-1970), Executive Deputy Chairman of the Board (1971-1982) and Chairman of the Board from 1982 to 2004.Since 2004, he has been Honorary Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the International Council.He has funded the Claude Janssen Chair in Business Administration at INSEAD and contributed to the financing of the INSEAD campus in Asia.
He also as a member of the Visiting Committee and of the Board of Associates of Harvard Business School from 1971 to 1983, was a Trustee of the French Library in Boston from 1978 to 1992 and a member of the board of the American University in Bulgaria from 1999 to 2006.He was one of the founders of AROP (Friends of the Paris Opera) in 1980, Chairman from 1988 to 1995 and a member of its board since 1980.He is Chairman of the International Council of Les Arts Décoratifs, one of the leading museums in Paris, since 1997.
He is Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur of the French Republic as well as Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.