The Board
The Board is
responsible for overseeing the strategic developments of the
Foundation. It meets four times a year, where it reviews and
selects the project proposals submitted to the Foundation.
It counts currently with 5 members. From left to right:
Graham Sharp, Philippe Blavier, Sabine Simkhovitch-Dreyfus, Eric de
Turckheim, Daniel Posen
Graham Sharp
(Chairman)
Graham was one the founders of
Trafigura in 1993, he held particular
responsibility for all the group's oil activities east
of Suez, both in trading and in asset investments. He was part
of the 6-member Oil Management Team of the Group.
Graham retired from Trafigura's
operational business in 2007. He spends now a lot of time in many
philanthropic activities, for the Trafigura Foundation of course
but also on a personal basis.
Prior to Trafigura, Graham has
developed his career in top executive positions with a variety of
major corporations, all connected to the oil and oil derivatives
trading sector.
Graham is a British national and
graduated from St. Johns College, Oxford, in 1983, with a
1st Class Honours Degree in Engineering, Economics and
Management.
Eric de Turckheim (Treasurer)
Eric was one of the founders of
Trafigura some fifteen years ago. He is currently a Director of the
whole Trafigura Group after having been Finance Director for more
than 10 years and sits on the Management Board of the group.
He has now moved to the Group's 3-member Supervisory
Board.
He is also a Board member of ECORE
B.V., a European industrial recycling company which promotes a
socially-responsible approach of recycling.
Before, Eric has been holding several
top executive positions in Finance departments within world-class
companies.
A French national with a wealth of
international experience, Eric holds a Master in Political Science
from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Paris, France),
1974, as well as a Doctorate in Economic Science from the
Paris University, 1975. He is a most accomplished sportsman, fond
in particular of marathons in which is regularly participates,
often in support of a charitable cause. Eric shares his life
between Geneva, Amsterdam and London.
Philippe Blavier
(Vice-Chairman)
Philippe is currently a Director of Iberian Minerals, a Canadian
public mining company (of which Trafigura is a 40% shareholder), of
the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, an Italian wholly-owned
subsidiary of BNP Paribas, and of Algonquin, a Belgian private
equity group. He is also a member of the Trafigura
Supervisory Board.
Until 2006, Philippe held various top international executive
positions in several major banks, especially BNP Paribas and Chase
Manhattan Bank.
Philippe graduated from the Institut d'Etudes
Politiques in Paris (1967) and holds a Masters Degree in Law.
He received the French Légion d'Honneur in 2003. He
currently lives in Brussels (Belgium).
Daniel Posen
A German national, Daniel has been amongst the founding members
of Trafigura in 1993 and has remained closely involved in the
company's developments since then.
Daniel is the Managing Director of the Posen Foundation in
Luzern (Switzerland). Founded by Felix Posen, his father, the Posen
Foundation works internationally to promote and support educational
and cultural initiatives.
He brings to the Trafigura Foundation his wealth of experience
in the strategic management of a foundation with international
outreach.
Sabine Simkhovitch-Dreyfus
Sabine is an attorney-at-law, admitted to the Geneva Bar since
1979. Currently a practicing lawyer and partner in Cabinet Mayor,
in Geneva, Sabine has 30 years of experience in corporate &
contract law and arbitration with some of Geneva's most prominent
law firms. Before, she has been involved in research and teaching
in corporate law at the University of Geneva and held executive
functions in the Geneva-based European Association of
Universities.
Sabine has studied law and political science in Bern, Jerusalem
and Geneva.
She is also strongly involved in associative work; in
particular, she is currently Vice President of the Swiss Federal
Commission against Racism and of the Swiss Federation of Jewish
Communities.