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Function at Novartis AG Pierre Landolt has served as a Director since 1996. He has been a member of the Corporate Governance and Nomination Committee since 2006. He qualifies as an independent Non-Executive Director.
Other activities Pierre Landolt is President of the Sandoz Family Foundation, Glarus, Switzerland; Chairman of the Board of Directors of Emasan AG, Basel, Switzerland; of Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier SA, Fleurier, Switzerland; and of the Instituto Estrela de Formento ao Microcrédito, Patos, Brazil. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Syngenta AG*, where he also serves as member of the Audit Committee, and of the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, both in Basel, Switzerland. Pierre Landolt is also Associate Partner of Banque Landolt & Cie, Lausanne, Switzerland; and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Parmigiani Fleurier SA., Fleurier, Switzerland; and the Fondation du Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland.
Professional background Pierre Landolt graduated with a bachelor of law degree from the University of Paris-Assas. From 1974 to 1976, he worked for Sandoz Brazil SA. In 1977, he acquired an agricultural estate in the arid northeast region of Brazil and transformed it into a model farm for organic and biotechnological development. He also created an irrigation company, initially for his own farm and today active in the entire northern region of Brazil. Since 1997, Pierre Landolt has been Associate and Chairman of AxialPar Ltda, São Paulo, Brazil, an investment company focused on sustainable development. In 2000, he co-founded EcoCarbone France, Paris, a company active in the design and development of carbon-sequestration processes in Asia, Africa, South America and Europe. | 