Pierre-Olivier Beckers-Vieujant

Pierre-Olivier, Baron Beckers-Vieujant was born on May 3, 1960, in Uccle. He is a well-known businessman from Belgium.

Becker-Vieujant served as the CEO of Delhaize, a major company. His work helped shape the business world in Belgium and beyond.

Biography

Pierre-Olivier Beckers-Vieujant was born on May 3, 1960, in Uccle, Belgium. He is the youngest of six children in his family. His father, Guy Beckers, was once the president and CEO of Delhaize, a big supermarket company. The Beckers family owns a lot of shares in Delhaize. In 1996, Guy Beckers received a special title from Belgium called "chevalier," and in 2012, Pierre-Olivier became a baron. He also changed his last name to Beckers-Vieujant in 2012.

Pierre-Olivier studied applied economics at the Universite Catholique de Louvain and got an MBA from Harvard Business School in the United States. He started working at Delhaize in 1983 and became its CEO in 1999. He also led Delhaize America starting in 2002. He won awards like "Belgian Manager of the Year" in 2000 and "CEO BEL 20 of the Year" in 2009. He stepped down as CEO of Delhaize in 2013 but stayed on the board until 2015. Later, Delhaize joined with another company called Ahold. He now serves on the board of the Consumer Goods Forum.

Olympics

Pierre-Olivier Beckers-Vieujant was elected chairman of the Belgian Olympic Committee in December 2004 for a four-year term. He was re-elected again, with his term ending in 2013.

On July 25, 2012, during a meeting in London, he became a member of the International Olympic Committee. Even after the president retired in 2013, he remained the only person from Belgium on the International Olympic Committee.