Saori Dubourg

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Saori Dubourg (* 1971 in Augsburg ) is a German manager. From 1991 to 1996 she studied strategic management and industrial goods marketing at the University of Trier . She has been a member of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE since May 2017 .

Career

Saori Dubourg was born in 1971 to a German father and a Japanese mother.

From 1991 onwards she studied strategic management and industrial goods marketing at the University of Trier , where she received her diploma in 1996. In the same year she started at BASF in marketing. After positions at BASF in Ludwigshafen , Charlotte (USA) and Tokyo (Japan) , she was responsible for controlling and the fiber binding business for dispersions in Asia Pacific in Singapore from 2001 to 2004 .

In 2004 she took over the management of Business Management Europe for the superabsorbents and acrylic monomers business at BASF in Ludwigshafen . In 2008 she became Senior Vice President Global Executive HR and also headed the Senior Project Diversity & Inclusion. From 2009 to 2013 Dubourg President was responsible for all functional and country divisions in the Asia Pacific region, based in Hong Kong. She then took over as President of BASF’s Nutrition and Healthcare division until 2017. During this time, she sold the Custom Synthesis business to Siegfried Holding GmbH in 2015 and restructured the business.

As a member of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE, she has been responsible for the Agricultural Solutions, Construction Chemicals, Europe Region, BASF research unit Bioscience Research and the start-up trinamiX since 2017. She also heads the sustainability board for BASF. In 2018 Saori Dubourg was responsible for the acquisition of the seeds division of the chemical company Bayer for 7.6 billion euros. In 2019 she was also in charge of negotiating the divestment of the Construction Chemicals business. In December 2019, the agreement to acquire the construction chemicals business by Lone Star was signed. The sales price excluding cash and financial debt was around 3.17 billion euros.

Since 2020, the Nutrition and Health and Care Chemicals division has been her area of ​​responsibility.

She was a member of the High Level Industrial Group of the EU Commission and worked together with other experts on a vision paper for Europe 2030. She has been a member of the Federal Government's Sustainability Council since 2020 .

In addition, she heads the steering committee of the value alliance founded with partners . This pursues a holistic and future-oriented corporate control and accounting, in which the overall performance of the company should be shown not only according to profit, but also according to the monetized social and environmental contributions. The alliance, which is under the auspices of the OECD , won the contract from the EU Commission in 2020 to develop the new accounting standard E-GAAP as part of the European Green Deal .  

Activity in supervisory boards

  • Member of the Supervisory Board of Wintershall DEA (since 2019)

Activity in committees

  • Member of the Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) of the Federal Government (since 2020)
  • Vice-President of the Executive Committee of Cefic - European Chemical Industry Council (since 2017)

Honorary positions

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Saori Dubourg. In: basf.com. Retrieved June 18, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Jürgen Salz: Decision Maker: "You can lead a team through a deep valley". In: wiwo.de. Retrieved June 18, 2020 .
  3. ^ Saori Dubourg. Retrieved June 22, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ BASF completes the sale of custom synthesis and parts of its API business to Siegfried Holding AG. Retrieved June 22, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ BASF completes acquisition of businesses and assets from Bayer. Retrieved June 22, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ Lone Star Funds acquires BASF's construction chemicals business. Retrieved June 22, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ BASF downsizes the Executive Board from seven to six members. Retrieved June 22, 2020 (German).
  8. ↑ May Ling CORKE: Industry 2030 High Level Industrial Roundtable. June 25, 2019, accessed June 22, 2020 .
  9. ^ Members. Retrieved June 22, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Dubourg, Saori
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg