 |
 |
|
NEWS & FEATURES |
Dr. Georges Ugeux is Senior Managing Director, International, of the New York Stock Exchange. He joined the Exchange in 1996 as Group Executive Vice President and led the development of the NYSE's International group. Dr. Ugeux represents the Exchange with the international community. Dr. Ugeux, a Belgian national, began his career in 1970 in commercial banking at Societe Generale de Banque, the leading Belgian bank, in Brussels. He later became General Manager of the investment banking and trust division. His career led him to London, where he became Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. In 1988, he was appointed Group Finance Director at Societe Generale de Belgique, a Belgian diversified industrial and financial conglomerate. In 1992 he became president of Kidder, Peabody Europe as well as Managing Director and a member of the management committee and the board. In addition, he was a member of the European Corporate Executive Council of General Electric Inc. From 1995 until joining the NYSE in 1996, Dr. Ugeux served as president of the European Investment fund, a Euro 2 billion public-private partnership created by the heads of state and government of the European Union. He also chaired the Kingdom of Belgium's Privatization Committee. Georges Ugeux holds a Doctorate in Law and is Licentiate in Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain. He has lectured at that University as well as at the College of Europe in Bruges. He is a Special Advisor of the Program on International Financial Systems of Harvard Law School. He is Chairman of the Belgian American Chamber of Commerce and of the Catholic University of Louvain Foundation. He is a director of the British American Business Inc. and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Gent-Leuven Vlerick Business School.
|
 |