Emma Marcegaglia

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Emma Marcegaglia (2009)

Emma Marcegaglia (born December 24, 1965 in Mantua , Italy) is an Italian entrepreneur and president of the LUISS Guido Carli University . She was chairwoman of Confindustria and has been running the European employers' association Businesseurope since July 2013 . In November 2011, the Financial Times selected her as one of the 50 most influential business women in the world in its annual "Women at the Top" ranking. Since April 14, 2014, she has been the chairman of the supervisory board of the Italian company with the highest turnover, the oil and energy group Eni .

Life

Emma Marcegaglia was born in Mantua on December 24, 1965. She is the daughter of the entrepreneur Steno Marcegaglia and his wife Palmira Bazzani.

In 1989 Marcegaglia studied at the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan . During her studies, she spent eight months in the United States , where she obtained a Masters of Business Administration from New York University .

After graduating, she headed the tourism division of the steel company Marcegaglia .

In April 1996, Emma Marcegaglia was the first woman to be appointed President of the Young Entrepreneurs and thereby Vice President of Confindustria. Between 1997 and 2000 she was President of the European Young Industrialists.

From 2008 to 2012 she was chairwoman of Confindustria . Emma Marcegaglia was the first woman to lead the association since it was founded in 1919. In the election, Marcegaglia received 126 of the 132 votes cast. It represents 126,000 companies with 4.7 million employees (as of 2008) . On April 11, 2013, the European umbrella organization BUSINESSEUROPE announced that Emma Marcegaglia will succeed Jürgen R. Thumann as President of this organization from July 1, 2013.

Today she runs the steel company together with her brother Antonio Marcegaglia . They increasingly relied on external managers and accelerated their international expansion. Emma Marcegaglia is responsible for finance and administration.

Emma Marcegaglia now lives in Mantua with her husband and daughter.

Web links

Commons : Emma Marcegaglia  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Financial Times: Women at the Top, Position 20: Emma Marcegaglia
  2. ↑ Wirtschaftsblatt: Emma gives Italy's captains of industry the direction ( Memento from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Handelsblatt.de: The woman who resists Silvio Berlusconi
  4. ↑ süddeutsche.de: Emma and the bosses (2)
  5. ↑ süddeutsche.de: Emma and the bosses (1)
  6. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Marcegaglia, Emma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian entrepreneur, President of Confindustria
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Mantua , Italy