Delphi Forum honors L’Oréal chairman with Apollo award

Handing the grant to Jean-Paul Agon (left) was Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hatzidakis.

The Delphi Economic Forum honored Jean-Paul Agon, president and erstwhile CEO of planetary cosmetics institution L’Oréal, connected Thursday with the archetypal Apollo International Award.

At an lawsuit held astatine the Acropolis Museum, the forum honored the enforcement whose “life practically began here, successful Athens,” arsenic helium said, recalling his clip starring the Athens bureau of the French multinational astir fractional a period ago.

Agon, who helped transform the institution into what DEF described arsenic “the undisputed person successful planetary cosmetics,” received the grant from Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hatzidakis.

The award, DEF laminitis and president Symeon Tsomokos said, will beryllium presented annually to individuals with planetary interaction who embody timeless values.

Speaking astatine times successful fluent Greek, Agon expressed his affection for Greece and noted that it was the state where helium learned astir values and however to understand people’s culture, needs, dreams and desires.

He besides praised Greece’s betterment from its 10-year fiscal crisis, saying: “Everybody should larn however Greece made it – this is simply a way to get retired of a situation with courage, resilience and imagination.”