David de Pury | |
|---|---|
| Born | Patrice Lancelot David de Pury December 4, 1943 Basel, Switzerland |
| Died | December 27, 2000 (aged 57) Zurich, Switzerland |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Relatives | Simon de Pury |
Patrice Lancelot David de Pury[1] known as David de Pury (December 4, 1943 - December 27, 2000) was a Swiss businessman and diplomat. He was the Swiss trade ambassador, representing Swiss interests at the General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade and at the Inter-American Development Bank. He was the chair of ABB, and chair and publisher of Le Temps.
Biography
De Pury was born into a Swiss family that has been nobilitated in 1651 by Henri II. d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville and had their origins in Neuchatel,[2] Switzerland. His father, Jacques de Pury, was an attorney and head of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche for which he led Nippon Roche in Tokyo, Japan. His younger brother is Simon de Pury.
De Pury was a delegate of the Federal Council for Trade Agreements in Switzerland and served as Switzerland's Trade Ambassador,[3] and representing the country at the General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade in 1987.[4][5] De Pury succeeded Fritz Leutwiler as the Co-Chairman of ABB, serving in that capacity from 1992 to 1996.[5][6][7] He later served as the Chairman of BBC Brown Hoveri.[8][9] He held a number of government offices, including working in the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Bern.[10] He represented Switzerland in The Hague, Brussels and Washington DC.[10] In the 1980s he served as the Governor for Switzerland at the Inter-American Development Bank.[10] He was a board member of Nestlé, Ciba-Geigy and Zurich Insurance Group and chairman and publisher of Le Temps.[10][11] In 1996 he co-founded the wealth management firm de Pury, Pictet, Turrettini.[10][12]
De Pury was Vice President of the Lucerne Classical Music Festival.[10] In 1995 he called for a liberalization of the Swiss economy and was criticized for trying to "dismantle" the welfare state.[10][13] In April 1993 he spoke to university students at the Harvard Kennedy School about governmental and commercial issues.[8] He was chosen to speak at the school due to his active role in the annual International Management Symposium in St Gallen, Switzerland.[8]
De Pury died from cancer on 27 December 2000 at a hospital in Zürich.[10]
References
- ↑ Authier, Olivier. "Jean-Jacques de PURY". Geneanet. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
- ↑ Inderwildi, Frédéric. "Pury". Dictionnaire Historique de la Suisse. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
- ↑ "Europe Awaits US Trade List". Christian Science Monitor. 25 May 1989.
- ↑ "Agreement on trade and tariffs" (PDF). www.wto.org. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
- 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 December 2019. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "ABB announces record results for 1995". UPI.
- ↑ Turrell, Mark (18 July 1996). Lloyd, Peter; Whitehead, Roger (eds.). Transforming Organisations Through Groupware: Lotus Notes in Action. Springer. pp. 39–45. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-3052-9_4.
- 1 2 3 "Business Must Work for Trade | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com.
- ↑ "Nexus Bilderberg article back matter".
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Swiss industrialist and diplomat, David de Pury, dies". SWI swissinfo.ch.
- ↑ Rattner, Steven (18 July 2000). Promoting Sustainable Economies in the Balkans: Report of an Independent Task Force. Council on Foreign Relations. ISBN 9780876092675 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Geneva WM reveals how being an ESG pioneer paid off".
- ↑ Pury, David de; Tribune, International Herald (23 August 1995). "Opinion | The New Multilateral Trading System Needs Urgent Attention". The New York Times.