Morris Tabaksblat

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Morris Tabaksblat, Rotterdam 1937, is a Dutch 'Captain of industry'. He is mostly known as a former CEO of Unilever and chairman of the 'Tabaksblat' committee which drafted the 'Tabaksblat code'.

Tabaksblat was educated at the gymnasium in The Hague and after that studied law at the Leiden University. He joined Unilever in 1964.

During the first twenty years of his career at Unilever he had positions in marketing and sales in the Netherlands, Spain and Brazil. In 1984 he joined the boards of Unilever NV and Unilever PLC. He was responsible for marketing and the productgroup 'personal products'. Later he worked in New York, as regional director for North America. In 1994 he became chairman of the board of directors. In 1999 he left Unilever and became chairman of Reed Elsevier.

Tabaksbat is also chairmain of the War Trauma Foundation in Amstelveen and chairman of the councils of the university of Leiden and the Leiden University Medical Centre.

In 2003 Morris Tabaksblat became chairmain of the 'Tabaksblat committee' which drafted a corporate governance code, a code of conduct for remuneration of managers in the Netherlands.