Hervé de Carmoy is chairman of ETAM, Paris. Previously he was chairman of Almatis (formerly Alcoa Specialty Chemicals), a majority-owned company of Rhone Group LLC in Frankfurt-am-Main. Until 2004, he was a partner of the Rhône Group LLC in New York and Paris since 1998. Prior to this position, he was chairman of the Banque Industrielle Mobilière et Privée (BIMP) and advisor to the chairman of HR Finances in Paris. Educated at l'Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris and at Cornell University in the United States, he began his career at Chase Manhattan Bank in 1963 and became its director for Europe in 1973. After joining Midland Bank in 1978, Mr. de Carmoy became director and chief executive international, London and Paris, and chairman of Thomas Cook, a position he held until 1988.
He was thereupon chief executive of Société Générale de Belgique in Brussels until February 1991. An author, Mr. de Carmoy was also a Trilateral Commission task force author on Restoring Growth in the Debt-Laden Third World (1987, with Martin Feldstein and Koei Narusawa). He was elected European deputy chairman of the Trilateral Commission in 2004 and served as chairman of the French Group of the Commission. His most recent publication is L'Euramérique (Editions des Presses Universitaires de France PUF, October 2007).
Hervé de Carmoy is chairman of ETAM, Paris. Previously he was chairman of Almatis (formerly Alcoa Specialty Chemicals), a majority-owned company of Rhone Group LLC in Frankfurt-am-Main. Until 2004, he was a partner of the Rhône Group LLC in New York and Paris since 1998. Prior to this position, he was chairman of the Banque Industrielle Mobilière et Privée (BIMP) and advisor to the chairman of HR Finances in Paris. Educated at l'Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris and at Cornell University in the United States, he began his career at Chase Manhattan Bank in 1963 and became its director for Europe in 1973. After joining Midland Bank in 1978, Mr. de Carmoy became director and chief executive international, London and Paris, and chairman of Thomas Cook, a position he held until 1988.
He was thereupon chief executive of Société Générale de Belgique in Brussels until February 1991. An author, Mr. de Carmoy was also a Trilateral Commission task force author on 