GEORGES UGEUX est Président Directeur General de Galileo Global Advisors, une banque d’affaires spécialisée dans le conseil et les
transactions transfrontaliers, particulièrement vers et en provenance des pays émergents. Il est professeur associé à la faculté de droit de Columbia University où il anime un séminaire
sur « International Banking and Finance ». Il est également professeur invité à la Sorbonne Paris Ier et conseiller spécial de la Harvard Law School.
Il siège au Conseil d’Administration d’AXA Tian Ping, une compagnie d’assurances basée à Shanghai et Avant, une société de technologie de l’information basée et cotée à Tokyo.
Docteur en Droit et Licencié en Sciences Economiques de l’Université Catholique de Louvain, GEORGES UGEUX a centré sa carrière au service de la dimension globale des entreprises, des marchés de capitaux et des gouvernements.
Georges Ugeux a commencé sa carrière à la Société Générale de Banque (maintenant BNP Paribas Fortis), dont il devint en 1982 Directeur de la direction financière qui couvrait les activités de banque d’affaires, gestion de fortunes ainsi que les activités “titres” du réseau de la banque. En 1985, il rejoint Morgan Stanley à Londres comme Managing Director d’abord en charge du corporate finance, ensuite du département fusions et acquisitions. Il quitte cette position pour devenir Directeur Financier de la Société Générale de Belgique, le principal conglomérat belge qui venait d’être repris par le groupe Suez.
En 1992, GEORGES UGEUX devient Président et Managing Director of Kidder, Peabody International, détenu par General Electric dont il devient un des membres du Corporate Executive Council Européen. A la suite du démantèlement de Kidder Peabody, il est nommé Président du Fonds Européen d’investissement, un partenariat public-privé de plusieurs milliards d’euros, en charge de garantir les financements des PME et des projets transfrontaliers d’infrastructure de l’Union Européenne. Il initiera l’activité de private equity du FEI lors de l’Assemblée Générale de Lisbonne en 1996.
Pendant 7 ans, Georges Ugeux a créé et dirigé le groupe international du New York Stock Exchange, auquel il a apporté plus de 300 entreprises étrangères, d’une valeur boursière de $ 2.7 billions.
Il est Membre du comité d’investissements des Soeurs de Notre Dame d’Afrique, du comité financier de la Belgian American Education Foundation, conseiller de l’Emerging Markets Institute de Cornell University et membre du conseil de Polyfinances, la branche financière de l’Université Polytechnique de Montréal. Il est Président des American Friends de la Chapelle Musical Reine Elisabeth.
GEORGES UGEUX est fréquemment sollicité comme conférencier ou enseignant sur les questions de finance, de règlementation bancaire et financière, et de mondialisation. Il a notamment enseigné à l’Université Catholique de Louvain et au Collège d’Europe à Bruges. Il est conseiller d’APCO worldwide à Washington et d’Oxford Analytica au Royaume Uni.
Il a été invité en octobre 2008 par Le Monde.fr à tenir un blog intitulé « Démystifier la Finance » qui a été primé en 2009 comme le meilleur blog économique par le magazine Challenges. Il a répondu à l’invitation d’Huffington Post pour y tenir aussi un blog.
Il siège au Conseil d’Administration d’AXA Tian Ping, une compagnie d’assurances basée à Shanghai et Avant, une société de technologie de l’information basée et cotée à Tokyo.
Docteur en Droit et Licencié en Sciences Economiques de l’Université Catholique de Louvain, GEORGES UGEUX a centré sa carrière au service de la dimension globale des entreprises, des marchés de capitaux et des gouvernements.
Georges Ugeux a commencé sa carrière à la Société Générale de Banque (maintenant BNP Paribas Fortis), dont il devint en 1982 Directeur de la direction financière qui couvrait les activités de banque d’affaires, gestion de fortunes ainsi que les activités “titres” du réseau de la banque. En 1985, il rejoint Morgan Stanley à Londres comme Managing Director d’abord en charge du corporate finance, ensuite du département fusions et acquisitions. Il quitte cette position pour devenir Directeur Financier de la Société Générale de Belgique, le principal conglomérat belge qui venait d’être repris par le groupe Suez.
En 1992, GEORGES UGEUX devient Président et Managing Director of Kidder, Peabody International, détenu par General Electric dont il devient un des membres du Corporate Executive Council Européen. A la suite du démantèlement de Kidder Peabody, il est nommé Président du Fonds Européen d’investissement, un partenariat public-privé de plusieurs milliards d’euros, en charge de garantir les financements des PME et des projets transfrontaliers d’infrastructure de l’Union Européenne. Il initiera l’activité de private equity du FEI lors de l’Assemblée Générale de Lisbonne en 1996.
Pendant 7 ans, Georges Ugeux a créé et dirigé le groupe international du New York Stock Exchange, auquel il a apporté plus de 300 entreprises étrangères, d’une valeur boursière de $ 2.7 billions.
Il est Membre du comité d’investissements des Soeurs de Notre Dame d’Afrique, du comité financier de la Belgian American Education Foundation, conseiller de l’Emerging Markets Institute de Cornell University et membre du conseil de Polyfinances, la branche financière de l’Université Polytechnique de Montréal. Il est Président des American Friends de la Chapelle Musical Reine Elisabeth.
GEORGES UGEUX est fréquemment sollicité comme conférencier ou enseignant sur les questions de finance, de règlementation bancaire et financière, et de mondialisation. Il a notamment enseigné à l’Université Catholique de Louvain et au Collège d’Europe à Bruges. Il est conseiller d’APCO worldwide à Washington et d’Oxford Analytica au Royaume Uni.
Il a été invité en octobre 2008 par Le Monde.fr à tenir un blog intitulé « Démystifier la Finance » qui a été primé en 2009 comme le meilleur blog économique par le magazine Challenges. Il a répondu à l’invitation d’Huffington Post pour y tenir aussi un blog.
THEMES ET SUJETS DE CONFERENCES :
Global,économie,finances,banques,émergents,capitaux,Patron,Europe,
UnionEuropéenne,Monde,Bourse,investissements,règlementation,mondialisation,Banque centrale Européenne,Compliance,Transparence,régulation financière,normalisation comptable internationale,gestion
de patrimoine,Changement,Transformation,pratiques culturelles,éthique bancaire et financière,Mentor,Leadership,Management,Humanisme,droits bancaires,Stratégies,Marchés,Finances
alternatives, Intégrité,Gouvernance,Liquidité,Inflation,Finance mondiale,Supervision,Levée de Capitaux
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On October 1, 2003, GEORGES UGEUX founded Galileo Global Advisors to offer CEOs, Boards of Directors and Governments independent advice
on international business development, restructuring, compliance and mergers and acquisitions. For fifteen years, Galileo’s primary focus has been advisory services in Europe and Asia,
with a particular focus on emerging markets such as India and China.
Georges is a Lecturer in Law at Columbia University, where he teaches a seminar on “International Banking and Finance: the challenges.” In 2017, Sorbonne University Paris I invited Georges as a visiting professor for the 2017-2018 academic year. He has lectured at the University of Louvain, the College of Europe in Bruges and has served as Special Advisor to the Program on International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School. GEORGES UGEUX sits on the Board of Polyfinances in Montreal (the financial vertical of Polytechnique) and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Emerging Market Institute of Cornell University. Georges holds a Doctorate in Law and is Licentiate in Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain.
Prior to founding Galileo, Georges joined the New York Stock Exchange in September 1996, as Group Executive Vice President, International & Research. He built and managed the Exchange’s International Group and, during his tenure, spearheaded the listing of 308 companies from 43 countries, out of the 470 non-US companies listed on the NYSE with an aggregate value of $2.7 trillion. During that same period, the NYSE international trading moved from 40 to 140 million shares a day.
A 72 year-old Belgian and US national, GEORGES UGEUX began his career in 1970 at Société Générale de Banque (now BNP Paribas Fortis), the leading Belgian bank, where he became General Manager of the investment banking and trust division. His career led him to London in 1985, as Managing Director of Morgan Stanley’s Mergers and Acquisitions department. In 1988, Georges was appointed Group Finance Director at Société Générale de Belgique, the leading Belgian diversified industrial and financial conglomerate owned by the French leading company Engie (formerly GDF Suez). In 1992, he became president of Kidder, Peabody Europe as well as Managing Director while serving as a member of the Management Committee and the Board of Directors of Kidder, Peabody, Inc. He was put in charge of the firm’s global origination efforts. In that capacity, Georges was also a member of the European Corporate Executive Council of General Electric.
From 1995 until joining the NYSE, GEORGES UGEUX served as President of the European Investment Fund, a Euro 2 billion public-private partnership created by the Heads of State and Government of the European Union at the Edinburgh Summit. He also chaired the Kingdom of Belgium’s Privatization Commission, at the time of the Belgacom privatization.
Georges was a director of AXA Tian Ping Property & Casualty, a joint venture insurance company in Shanghai. He is a Director of Avant Corporation, a Japanese business solution company. Georges is a Member of the Investment Committee of the Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, an honorary chairman of the Belgian American Chamber of Commerce, the Catholic University of Louvain Foundation and the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel’s “American Friends.” Georges is a Member of the financial committee of the Belgian American Educational Foundation and sits on the International Advisory Boards of Guangzhou Municipal Board for International Investment, the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Oxford Analytica and APCO worldwide.
GEORGES UGEUX is a widely sought after thought leader, speaker and author. In 2011, he published “The betrayal of Finance: Twelve reforms to restore confidence” in French, English and Flemish. In 2017, this book was updated and published in Chinese by Oriental Publishing in Beijing, China. “International Finance Regulation: The Quest for Financial Stability” was been published in 2014 by John Wiley & Sons as part of Wiley & Sons’ Finance Series. Recently, Georges published his first mystery novel centered in the world of Global Finance and Asia. “The Flying Dragon” was published in English by Archway Publications in 2015, in French by Edilivre in 2017 (“Le dragon Volant“) and is expected to be published in Chinese in 2018. Additionally, Georges is a Board Member of the Authors Guild, a non-profit organization representing authors’ interests.
GEORGES UGEUX is a regular writer in his blog with lemonde.fr in France and is a contributor to Huffington Post. He is interviewed frequently on a variety of global topics for French speaking Television, radio and written media in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada.
Georges is a Lecturer in Law at Columbia University, where he teaches a seminar on “International Banking and Finance: the challenges.” In 2017, Sorbonne University Paris I invited Georges as a visiting professor for the 2017-2018 academic year. He has lectured at the University of Louvain, the College of Europe in Bruges and has served as Special Advisor to the Program on International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School. GEORGES UGEUX sits on the Board of Polyfinances in Montreal (the financial vertical of Polytechnique) and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Emerging Market Institute of Cornell University. Georges holds a Doctorate in Law and is Licentiate in Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain.
Prior to founding Galileo, Georges joined the New York Stock Exchange in September 1996, as Group Executive Vice President, International & Research. He built and managed the Exchange’s International Group and, during his tenure, spearheaded the listing of 308 companies from 43 countries, out of the 470 non-US companies listed on the NYSE with an aggregate value of $2.7 trillion. During that same period, the NYSE international trading moved from 40 to 140 million shares a day.
A 72 year-old Belgian and US national, GEORGES UGEUX began his career in 1970 at Société Générale de Banque (now BNP Paribas Fortis), the leading Belgian bank, where he became General Manager of the investment banking and trust division. His career led him to London in 1985, as Managing Director of Morgan Stanley’s Mergers and Acquisitions department. In 1988, Georges was appointed Group Finance Director at Société Générale de Belgique, the leading Belgian diversified industrial and financial conglomerate owned by the French leading company Engie (formerly GDF Suez). In 1992, he became president of Kidder, Peabody Europe as well as Managing Director while serving as a member of the Management Committee and the Board of Directors of Kidder, Peabody, Inc. He was put in charge of the firm’s global origination efforts. In that capacity, Georges was also a member of the European Corporate Executive Council of General Electric.
From 1995 until joining the NYSE, GEORGES UGEUX served as President of the European Investment Fund, a Euro 2 billion public-private partnership created by the Heads of State and Government of the European Union at the Edinburgh Summit. He also chaired the Kingdom of Belgium’s Privatization Commission, at the time of the Belgacom privatization.
Georges was a director of AXA Tian Ping Property & Casualty, a joint venture insurance company in Shanghai. He is a Director of Avant Corporation, a Japanese business solution company. Georges is a Member of the Investment Committee of the Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, an honorary chairman of the Belgian American Chamber of Commerce, the Catholic University of Louvain Foundation and the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel’s “American Friends.” Georges is a Member of the financial committee of the Belgian American Educational Foundation and sits on the International Advisory Boards of Guangzhou Municipal Board for International Investment, the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Oxford Analytica and APCO worldwide.
GEORGES UGEUX is a widely sought after thought leader, speaker and author. In 2011, he published “The betrayal of Finance: Twelve reforms to restore confidence” in French, English and Flemish. In 2017, this book was updated and published in Chinese by Oriental Publishing in Beijing, China. “International Finance Regulation: The Quest for Financial Stability” was been published in 2014 by John Wiley & Sons as part of Wiley & Sons’ Finance Series. Recently, Georges published his first mystery novel centered in the world of Global Finance and Asia. “The Flying Dragon” was published in English by Archway Publications in 2015, in French by Edilivre in 2017 (“Le dragon Volant“) and is expected to be published in Chinese in 2018. Additionally, Georges is a Board Member of the Authors Guild, a non-profit organization representing authors’ interests.
GEORGES UGEUX is a regular writer in his blog with lemonde.fr in France and is a contributor to Huffington Post. He is interviewed frequently on a variety of global topics for French speaking Television, radio and written media in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada.
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