Erik Fyrwald

Speaker at the St. Gallen Symposium

J. Erik Fyrwald is CEO, a Member of the Board of Directors, and a Member of the Sustainability Committee of Syngenta Group. Before becoming CEO of Syngenta Group in 2016, he served as CEO of Univar, a leading chemistry and related services distributor, from May 2012 until May 2016. In 2008, following a 27-year career at DuPont, he joined the Nalco Company, a leading water treatment products and services company, serving as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until December 2011, when Nalco merged with Ecolab Inc. Following the merger, Erik Fyrwald served as President of Ecolab, a global provider of water, hygiene, and energy technologies. Erik Fyrwald also serves on the boards of directors of Bunge, Eli Lilly, the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, and the UN World Food Program Farm to Market Alliance. He is also Chairman of the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture and CropLife International. Fyrwald holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering for the University of Delaware and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.