Pierre Joris

A.SPIRE; DOMO CHEMICALS

President

Pierre  Joris is Engineer in Physics from University of Liège, holding an M.Sc. in  Aeronautics & Astronautics from the University of Stanford, and an  Advanced Executive degree from Kellogg's School of Management, Chicago.  

Pierre has 35 years of international experience in the Chemical Industry. He  built his career for 29 years at Solvay, where he has held different  leadership positions in R&D, Business Development/M&A and in Global  Business Management.

In his last positions, he was Managing Director of  Solvay Solexis, the global fluoromaterial division of Solvay from 2005 to  2011 and completed his career at Solvay as Chief Scientific and Innovation  Officer for the group from 2011 until June 2013.

He was active at that time  in the Research & Innovation Program Council of CEFIC.