Audit Committee

The Audit Committee ensures oversight of the Group’s financial and non-financial reporting process, including monitoring the integrity of statements, the Statutory Auditor’s qualifications and independence, the performance of both the internal audit department and the Statutory Auditor, and the annual review of the internal control and risk management systems to ensure that the main risks, including compliance, ESG and fraud-related risks are identified and adequately managed.

Alison Henwood

Chair

Member of this Committee since

01 September 2022 (Chair as from 27 April 2023)

Date appointed to Supervisory Board

28 April 2022 (effective 1 September 2022)

Experience

Alison Henwood is a highly experienced finance professional with a nearly 30-year career with Shell in various financial leadership positions in Europe and the US, including the position of Executive Vice President Finance, Shell Trading and Supply. She finished her executive career at Shell end of June 2022.

Since 2017, she has chaired the Audit Committee of the UK Hydrographic Office, a Ministry of Defence agency that provides hydrographic and marine geospatial data to mariners and maritime organizations across the world. In September 2021, she also joined the Board of Spectris plc, a global supplier of precision instrumentation, test equipment and software and a constituent of the FTSE 250.

Koenraad Debackere

Member

Member of this Committee since

26 April 2018

Date appointed to Supervisory Board

26 April 2018

Experience 

Prof. Dr. Ir. Koenraad Debackere has been with KU Leuven since 1995, where he teaches Technology & Innovation Management and Policy. He has won numerous awards for his research, and in 2010 was awarded a Francqui Lecture Chair in economics and business. From 2005 through September 2020 he was the general manager of KU Leuven and also a member of the Board of KU Leuven.

Laurent Raets

Member

Member of this Committee since

25 April 2019

Date appointed to Supervisory Board

25 April 2019

Experience 

Laurent Raets joined Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL) in 2006 and became Partner in 2021. He began his career in 2002 as an M&A consultant at Deloitte Corporate Finance, where he was involved in buy and sell mandates, due diligence and valuation assignments.

Mark Garrett

Member

Member of this Committee since

27 April 2023

Date appointed to Supervisory Board

28 April 2015

Experience 

Mark Garrett has been Chief Executive Officer at Marquard & Bahls AG, a Hamburg-based holding company investing in new energies, gas, chemicals and materials, since August 2018. Before joining Marquard & Bahls AG, he served as Chief Executive Officer at Borealis AG, Austria, a position he had held since 2007. Prior to that, he built an extensive career in the chemical industry working with companies such as Ciba-Geigy and DuPont.

Marc Grynberg

Member

Member of this Committee since

27 April 2023

Date appointed to Supervisory Board

27 April 2023

Experience

Marc Grynberg was Umicore's Chief Executive Officer from November 2008 to November 2021. During his CEO mandate, he positioned Umicore as a global leader in clean mobility materials and recycling. Marc joined Umicore in 1996, served as CFO of the Company between 2000 and 2006 and headed the Automotive Catalysts business from 2006 to 2008. Prior to joining Umicore, Marc held several management positions at DuPont de Nemours in Brussels and Geneva.

The full biographies of the Committee Members are available on our Supervisory Board page.