Chairmen

Year

US Co-Chair

EU Co-Chair

2008-2010
Jim Quigley
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd 
Jürgen Thumann
Heitkamp & Thumann Group
2005-2008
Charles Prince
Citigroup
Martin Broughton
British Airways
2003-2005
Douglas Daft/E. Neville Isdell
The Coca-Cola Company
Niall FitzGerald
Unilever/Reuters
2002
Phil Condit
Boeing
Sir Charles Masefield
BAE
2001
James J. Schiro
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Michael Treschow
Electrolux
2000
George David
United Technologies Corporation
Bertrand Collomb
Lafarge
1999
Richard Thoman
Xerox Corporation
Jerome Monod
Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux
1998
Lodewijk de Wink
Warner-Lambert
Juergen Schrempp
DaimlerChrysler
1997
Dana Mead
Tenneco
Jan Timmer
Philips
1996
Alex Trotman
Ford
Juergen Strube
BASF
1995
Paul Allaire
Xerox Corporation
Peter Sutherland
Goldman Sachs

Economic Factoids

In 2008, 72% of worldwide R and D spending stemmed from North America or Europe