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September 2012
Philippe Divry is new Volvo India MD
The Volvo Group has announced the appointment of Mr. Philippe Divry
as the new Managing Director of Volvo India Pvt. Ltd. (VIPL) and Senior
Vice President, Truck Joint Ventures India, Volvo Group.
As Managing Director of VIPL, one of the three legal entities of the
Volvo Group in India, besides Volvo Buses India and VE Commercial
Vehicles (VECV), Mr. Divry will oversee the resourcing and optimization
of the Volvo Group’s 4,000-plus workforce in India and support the ambi-
tious growth plans of the group’s different business areas and functions. In
this role, he becomes the statutory head of the Volvo Group organisation in
India. A Senior Vice President at the group level, he is the highest ranking
executive of the Volvo Group ever positioned in India.
Mr. Divry also joins as a Board Member of the Volvo Group’s joint
venture company VE Commercial Vehicles (VECV), which comprises the
entire Eicher Motors truck and bus operations and the distribution of the
Volvo Trucks vehicles. He will therefore be responsible for the overall
performance of the truck business in India.
Mr. Divry has over two decades of experience in the commercial vehicle
and automotive industries, both at Renault Trucks and in the Volvo Group. He has rich background in operations
and project management and was head of Volvo Powertrain France from 2003 to 2008. He has been part of sig-
nificant co-operations with international partners and has exercised responsibilities as Board member in companies
such as Prevost Cars in North America, Sunwin Bus Corporation of China and Volvo Logistics of Sweden.
men at the helm
International Transport Forum’s
new Secretary-General
Internationally renowned academic Mr. José Viegas, a
Portuguese national, has taken over as Secretary-General of
the International Transport Forum.
Mr. Viegas, who was elected by Ministers from the Fo-
rum member-countries at their summit in May, joins the
Forum from an internationally recognised career as an aca-
demic and consultant. As a professor of civil engineering at
the University of Lisbon (Portugal) and chairman of TIS.pt,
a transport consultancy firm, he has worked in all transport
modes and managed collaborative networks across coun-
tries and economic sectors to advance better solutions in
transport.