Member of the Board of Directors
Member of the Strategic Committee
Appointed 1997
Count Charles de Liedekerke (°1953) practiced law for a couple of years at “Liedekerke, Wolters, Waelbroeck and Kirkpatrick” before performing his military duty. He moved in 1980 to the USA as Finance and Administration Officer of the North-American subsidiary of the Belgian, privately held chemical lime Carmeuse Group.
In 1982, he joined the French Lafarge Group, one of the world leaders in construction materials, where he held various operational and functional responsibilities in Paris, Dallas, and Calgary.
In 1992, he became Chief Financial Officer of the Bekaert Group.
In January 1998, he returned to Lafarge to take part in the integration of the newly acquired Redland and became that year a member of the group executive committee and president of its Aggregates and Concrete division, until April 2004 when he resigned from his position.
Charles de Liedekerke is currently CEO of the Joris Ide Group, a €400 million European producer of metal cladding and roofing products, non-executive Chairman of the Board of Cobepa, a €800 million Brussels based, private equity firm, member of the Board of Carrières du Hainaut, the largest European blue stone producer, member of the “Conseil de Surveillance” of Viangros, a Brussels based meat packing and transformation company and Partner and Board member of ISFI-Oscar Tausig, a spice import, processing and distribution company.
Charles de Liedekerke was also Board member of Assubel Accidents du Travail (1996 to 2000), associate member of the Round Table of European Industrialists (ERT) (1983 to 1985), Chairman of Redland UK (1998 to 2004), of the UK based Brett Ltd, a medium size family held construction materials company (2005-2008), of Deep Green, a Belgian soil remediation business (2006-2008), and of the board of non-profit organizations, among which GreenFacts, active in the field of environmental related information.
Charles is a Belgian citizen, fluent in English, French and Dutch and also reads Spanish. Presently living in Brussels, married with three grown children, he enjoys skiing and mountaineering, sailing, tennis and the opera.
Count Charles de Liedekerke obtained a Law Degree at the Catholic University of Louvain (1977).