Pierre Joris, A.SPIRE President
Pierre Joris is Engineer in Physics from University of Liège, holding an M.Sc. from the University of Stanford, and an Advanced Executive degree from Kellogg’s School of Management, Chicago. Pierre has 35 years of international experience in the Chemical Industry. He built his career for 29 years at Solvay, where he has held different leadership positions in R&D, Business Development/M&A and in Global Business Management. In his last positions , he was Managing Director of the global fluoromaterial division of Solvay from 2005 to 2011 and completed his career at Solvay as Chief Scientific and Innovation Officer for the group until June 2013. He was active at that time in the Research & Innovation Program Council of CEFIC. For the last six years, Pierre has been a senior advisor and independent board member at various companies in the field of materials and chemical industry, including Senior Executive Advisor to the Chemical division of Daikin , Member of the Board of Prayon as well as Member of the Supervisory Board of Domo Chemicals GmbH. It is in this last tenure that he was elected chairman of A.SPIRE in March 2019. Pierre is also Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group and to Krea