This Tuesday evening at the Rockhal, the ninth edition of the Paperjam Top 100 2022 will take place. The ranking will once again be the result of a long process carried out by an independent jury, this year composed of three women and four men.
The jury
Michèle Detaille, president of the jury
Michèle Detaille, , was the president of the jury. CEO of No-Nail Boxes, the first non-Luxembourgish woman to chair the Fedil, is a member of the board of directors of the BCL, of HLD Associés Europe and of Luxempart.
Philippe Seyll
Born in Bastogne, he is CEO of Clearstream Fund Services Luxembourg and chairperson of the board of directors of Clearstream Fund Centre AG.
Georges Bock
founded and manages Moniflo, a platform dedicated to ecological investments. He is a member of the board of directors of Unicef Luxembourg, Bank Julius Baer and Investre.
Bob Kneip
sold Kneip Communications SA in 2022 to Deutsche Börse Group and then created Kneip Management SA. He is an art lover, president of the Cercle Munster and a director of the Red Cross, the Fondatioun Kriibskrank Kanner and PSE Luxembourg.
Patrizia Luchetta
After developing the national strategy in the field of biomedical sciences, has put her experience at the service of numerous companies and boards of directors.
Nadia Manzari
Partner at Schiltz & Schiltz, is a specialist in payment services, financial technologies, compensation policies and corporate governance.
Nicolas Mackel
has been the CEO of Luxembourg for Finance since 2013. Before that, Mackel had a successful career as a diplomat, notably in Washington and Shanghai.
The methodology
This jury was able to rely on a methodology that has been well established since had the idea of defining, every two years, this list of the country’s most influential economic decision-makers.
This is a delicate exercise, as influence cannot be measured objectively, quantified or formalised in a graph. This assessment is subjective and polymorphic. One can be seen as more or less influential because of one’s age, social position, education, authority among one’s peers, professional success, career path, address book or network, interpersonal skills, ability to listen, dynamism, positive leadership, the size or respectability of one’s company, etc.
Initially, the Paperjam editorial team, based on the , drew up a list of 1,000 personalities published in the August/September edition of the magazine.
The jury then began a long process, in total discretion and absolute confidentiality, in order to reduce this list to 100 names, from which a top 10 and, ultimately, a winner were extracted. The discussions were rich, the exchanges argumentative, the arbitrations sometimes passionate. But all decisions were taken unanimously.
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The aim of the Paperjam Top 100 2022 ranking is not to reward or honour a decision-maker in recognition of his or her merit or career as a whole. It is a freeze-frame, at a given moment, which presents the decision-makers in direct contact with the economic reality of the country through their influence. It also reflects the jury’s sensitivity to certain issues of the moment.
All decision-makers who, through their function or activity, have a tangible influence on the economy and politics in Luxembourg were therefore eligible for inclusion in the ranking. Since the Paperjam Top 100 2020, former winners are no longer eligible. It is clear, however, that most of them continue to make a strong impact on the national economic landscape. The members of the jury were also excluded from the ranking, as were the employees and managers of Maison Moderne, Paperjam's publishing company. Similarly, civil servants and public employees, with some exceptions, could not be included.
This painstaking work, carried out from the summer until November by the jury, which was able to count on the support of (CEO and founder of Maison Moderne), Bérengère Beffort (former director of Publishing House) and (editor-in-chief of paperjam.lu and editor-in-chief ad interim of Paperjam), resulted in a ranking that represents their picture of the current dynamics of the Luxembourg economy. The discovery that you will make in the following pages will undoubtedly allow you to appreciate the other messages that they wanted to convey through this ranking.
This article was written for the January 2022 edition of .
This story was first published in French on . It has been translated and edited for Delano.