|
Stephan Ernest Schmidheiny is a Swiss billionaire; his net worth is estimated by Forbes to be $3 billion.〔http://www.forbes.com/profile/stephan-schmidheiny/〕 ==Life== Stephan Ernest Schmidheiny was born in Balgach, St. Gallen, Switzerland, on October 29, 1947 as a fourth generation member of the most important industrial dynasty in Switzerland and completed his Law studies with a doctorate at the University of Zurich in 1972. He started his business career at Eternit Niederurnen he had inherited and in 1976 he was named CEO of the Swiss Eternit Group. According to his brother Thomas Schmidheiny, their father Max decided to divide his industrial empire into two halves: asbestos for Stephan, cement for Thomas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Audition of Thomas Schmidheiny, Turin Court, Eternit Trial )〕 According to his official biography, he ended the company's use of asbestos in 1986. Years later he diversified his investments, building up a multinational conglomerate of shareholdings by adding enterprises in the areas of forestry, banking, consumer goods, power generation, and the electronic and optical equipment, and by entering the boards of directors of leading companies such as ABB Asea Brown Boveri, Nestlé, Swatch, and UBS AG. In the 1980s he created FUNDES, an organization that supports the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in several Latin American countries. According to recent Swiss accounts, Stephan Schmidheiny began buying Chilean forest land in 1982, and he now owns over 120,000 hectares in Southern Chile, near Concepción, land which the Mapuche Indians claim has been theirs since time immemorial. The Mapuche charge that some of the land Schmidheiny bought was stolen from them during the Pinochet dictatorship, using that regime's standard techniques of intimidation, torture, and murder.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Generalist: Stephan Schmidheiney 2; The Asbestos Ghost )〕 In 1990 he was appointed chief adviser for business and industry to the secretary general of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), better known as the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit of 1992. He created a forum in which leading businessmen from all parts of the world developed a business perspective on environment and development challenges. This forum later became the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), an organization that today counts the world’s 160 most important companies as its members. Stephan Schmidheiny was elected Honorary Chairman. In the 1990s he also established the AVINA Foundation, which contributes to sustainable development in Latin America by encouraging productive alliances among social and business leaders and today is a leading player in that field. After the creation of VIVA Trust in 2003, Stephan Schmidheiny retired from all of his executive functions, including his positions in GrupoNueva and AVINA. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stephan Schmidheiny」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|