Samir Yacoub Brikho
FREng (born 3 May 1958) is a Lebanese-Swedish Chairman of the Board of Directors at global fertilizer producer
EuroChem Group AG. Brikho has previously held senior positions in many leading companies such as Asea, ABB Group, Alstom and Amec Foster Wheeler.
Biography
Born in
Beirut
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on 3 May 1958,
Brikho is
Lebanese by birth but his family later moved to Sweden, where he holds citizenship. Brikho holds a Master of Science degree in Thermal Technology from the Royal Institute of Technology in
Stockholm
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, Sweden.
[Samir Brikho: If we provide excellence the profits will follow](_blank)
The Independent, 15 December 2007 He is also a graduate of the Young Managers Programme at
INSEAD and the Senior Executive Programme at
Stanford University
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.
Brikho held various senior management positions at
Asea and
ABB Power Generation between 1983 and 2000, ultimately becoming a senior vice president and global managing director, steam turbines and generators,
ABB Kraftwerke AG in Germany. In 2000, he moved to
Alstom, where he was chief international operations officer and senior vice-president, and CEO of Alstom Kraftwerke in Germany.
In 2003 he became chief executive of
ABB Lummus Global, and in 2005 he became a member of the group executive committee of ABB Ltd, head of the Power Systems Division at
ABB Group.
He went on to be chief executive of
Amec Foster Wheeler (formerly Amec) in October 2006.
The company's share price rose from under 400 pence when he assumed the role of
CEO in October 2006, to over 1,200 pence in June 2014. He served until 18 January 2016 and was succeeded by Ian McHoul, the chief financial officer.
On 19 December 2019,
Eurochem Group AG, a global fertilizer producer, announced that Brikho would be assuming the role of Chairman of the Board of Directors, effective from 1 January 2020.
From 2020 to 2023 Brikho was Chairman of the Board of Directors of
SUEK.
Awards and commendations
On 16 October 2009, Brikho was presented with the Medal of Honour for Industrial Service by South Korean President Myung-bak Lee for his contributions to enhance economic competitiveness in Korea through successful completion of the
Incheon Bridge project.
Since being appointed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown in February 2010, reconfirmed under David Cameron's coalition government, and again under Theresa May, Brikho served as a UK Business Ambassador to support successive British Governments in promoting the UK's excellence internationally, until the programme's cancellation in December 2018.
In July 2013 Mr Brikho was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
In June 2015, Brikho received an honorary doctorate from
Cranfield University.
Other affiliations
Brikho is a member of the advisory board of Stena AB
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and was a non-executive director of
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken. He acted as co-chair of the UK-UAE CEO Forum and co-chair of the UK-Korea CEO Forum.
He was chairman of the Offshore Europe 2011 Conference, the largest upstream oil and gas event outside North America.
[Offshore Europe Conference & Exhibition 2011]
Brikho was chairman and co-founder of the StepChange Foundation.
Brikho was the 2009 Chair of the World Economic Forum's Engineering and Construction Board, has held the role of chair of the World Economic Forum's Disaster Resource Partnership and is currently co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Infrastructure & Urban Development Industries Committee.
Brikho was chair of the UK Energy Excellence Strategy Board,
from May 2008 to May 2010, which was tasked by the UK Government with demonstrating the UK's world-leading position in energy. Samir was also a director of the United Kingdom-Japan 21st Century Group,
[United Kingdom-Japan 21st Century Group]
a member of the advisory board of LIFE Lebanon
and a member of the advisory board of the
School of Oriental and African Studies.
[ He is a founding member of the ''Palestine International Business Forum'', a body formed to promote trade and business relations between Israeli and Palestinian private sectors and the International business community.][
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References
External links
EuroChem Group AGSUEK JSC
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1958 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Beirut
Lebanese chief executives
Swedish chief executives
Lebanese emigrants to Sweden
Swedish people of Lebanese descent
INSEAD alumni
KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni
Businesspeople from Stockholm