Kaspar Villiger
Kaspar Villiger (pronounced Caspar Feeleeger; born 5 February 1941) is a Swiss businessman, politician and former member of the Swiss Federal Council (1989–2003).
Contents
- 1 Political career
- 2 Business career
- 3 Other activities
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Political career
On 1 February 1989, he was elected to the Swiss Federal Council. He is affiliated to the Free Democratic Party (Liberals).
During his time in office he headed the following departments:
- Federal Military Department (1989 – 1995)
- Federal Department of Finance (1996 – 2003)
He was President of the Confederation twice, in 1995 and again in 2002.
In 1995 Kaspar Villiger apologized on occasion of an official visit by Dan Culler who was an internee in the Wauwilermoos internment camp during World War II. Dwight Mears, a U.S. Army officer, covered the apology in his 2012 PhD thesis on the American internees in Switzerland.
In September 2003, he announced he was to resign on 31 December 2003.
Business career
In 2004, he became member of the board of directors of Nestlé and Swiss Re.
On 15 April 2009, he was elected Chairman of the Board of Swiss banking giant UBS, holding this post until 3 May 2012. His successor was Axel A. Weber.
Other activities
Kaspar Villiger is a Member of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organization which works to support democratic leadership, prevent and resolve conflict through mediation and promote good governance in the form of democratic ins*utions, open markets, human rights and the rule of law. It does so by making available, discreetly and in confidence, the experience of former leaders to today's national leaders. It is a not-for-profit organization composed of former heads of government, senior governmental and international organization officials who work closely with Heads of Government on governance-related issues of concern to them.
References
External links
- Profile of Kaspar Villiger with election results on the website of the Swiss Federal Council.
- Business activities of Kaspar Villiger, databot.ch
- Nestlé India (62.76%)
- Beverage Partners Worldwide
- Cereal Partners Worldwide
- Froneri
- Nestlé Toll House Café
- Hsu Fu Chi (60%)
- L'Oréal (30.3%)
- Osem (100%)
- Yinlu Foods (60%)
- Günter Blobel
- Paul Bulcke
- Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
- Nobuyuki Idei
- Henri Nestlé
- Kaspar Villiger
- Nestea European Championship Tour
- Nestlé boycott
- Nestlé Invitational
- Nestlé Rowntree F.C.
- Nestlé Smarties Book Prize
- Nestlé Tower
- Toll House cookies
- International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Subs*utes
- Nescafé Ba*t
- Maggi noodles safety concerns in India
- 1 Currently manufactured by General Mills in the U.S. and Canada. Produced by Cereal Partners under the Nestlé brand elsewhere. 2 Brand owned by General Mills; U.S. and Canadian production rights controlled by Nestlé under license. 3 U.S. production rights owned by The Hershey Company. 4 U.S. rights and production owned by the Smarties Candy Company with a different product. 5 U.S. rights and specific trade dress owned by Nestlé; rights elsewhere owned by *ociated British Foods. 6 Produced by Cereal Partners, branded as Nestlé. 7 Produced by Cereal Partners and branded as Nestlé in the U.K. and Ireland. Produced by Post Foods elsewhere. 8 Philippine production rights owned by Alaska Milk Corporation. 9 Singaporean, Malaysian and Thai production rights owned by Fraser and Neave. 10 Used only in Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia. 11 Used only in the Philippines. 12 U.S. production rights owned by the Ferrara Candy Company. 13 NA rights and specific trade dress to all packaged coffee and other products under the Starbucks brand owned by Nestlè since 2019. 14 Brand owned by Mars, sold by Nestlé in Canada.
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executives
and directors
- Axel A. Weber (Chairman)
- Ralph Hamers (CEO)
- Markus U. Diethelm
- John A. Fraser
- Ulrich Körner
- Tom Naratil
- Alex Wilmot-Sitwell
- Robert McCann
- Chi-Won Yoon
- William G. Parrett
- Phil Gramm
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- Gary P. Brinson
- John Costas
- John Cryan
- Blair Effron
- Sergio Ermotti
- Oswald Grübel
- Marten Hoekstra
- Jerker Johansson
- Peter Kurer
- Ken Moelis
- Marcel Ospel
- Marcel Rohner
- Olivier Sarkozy
- Kaspar Villiger
- Robert Wolf
- Jürg Zeltner
- MFS Investment Management
- UBS
- Norges Bank
- Wellington Management Company
- Credit Suisse
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