Jean-Pierre Hansen (CEO)
Jean-Pierre Hansen | |
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| Born | April 25, 1948 Athus, Belgium |
| Occupation(s) | Business executive, professor |
| Years active | 1975–present |
| Known for | Senior executive vice-president and vice-chairman of GDF-Suez; CEO of Electrabel and Suez-Tractebel; board member of ArcelorMittal |
Jean-Pierre, Baron Hansen (born 25 April 1948 in Athus, Belgium) is a prominent Belgian business leader. He held the positions of senior executive vice-president and vice-chairman of the executive committee at GDF-Suez, where he was responsible for managing operations.
Career
Jean-Pierre Hansen earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Liège, complemented by an economics degree from Panthéon-Assas University and a doctoral degree in engineering from Paris VI. His professional journey in the electricity and gas industry began in 1975.
From 1992 until March 1999, he served as CEO of Electrabel, returning to the role of CEO and vice-chairman in January 2005. Since March 1999, Hansen has chaired the executive committee of Electrabel. He also holds the CEO position at Suez-Tractebel, chairs Fabricom, and is a board member of Distrigas, Fluxys, AGBAR (Spain), and ACEA (Italy). Furthermore, he acts as vice-chairman of the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium (FEB) and lectures as an associate professor of economics at both the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris). His directorship extends to the board of ArcelorMittal as well.
In 2008, a Belgian court convicted Hansen alongside Patrick Ouart for unauthorized access to telecommunications, following their attempt in 2004 to monitor an Electrabel employee’s communications—a controversy referred to as the "Electragate" scandal.