Philippe Bodson, businessman & politician
Philippe André Eugène, Baron Bodson, a Belgian businessman and politician who served in the Belgian Senate from 1999 to 2003, died from Covid-19 on 4 April 2020.
Bodson graduated as civil engineer at the University of Liège (ULg) and obtained a Master of Business Administration at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France)
Bodson started his career at McKinsey in Paris where he worked for three years. He then worked for four years for the Daus Bank in Germany and the United States. In 1977, he started working for Glaverbel, where he would be the CEO from 1980 until 1989. From September 1989 until December 1998, he was a non-executive member of the board of directors of Fortis. From 1999 until 2003, he was a senator in the Belgian Senate for the Mouvement reformateur. F...