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DANONE
REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 2015
Corporate Governance
6.2 Positions and responsibilities of the Directors and Nominees to the Board of Directors
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VIRGINIA A. STALLINGS
Born September 18, 1950
Age: 65 years
US nationality
Business address:
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
– 3535 Market Street – Rm 1558 – Philadelphia, PA
19104 – United States
Number of DANONE shares held as of December 31, 2015:
4,000
Independent Director
Attendance rate at Board of Directors' meetings as of
December 31, 2015:
100%
Principal responsibility:
Professor of Pediatrics at
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Personal background – experience and expertise:
Virginia A. Stallings is a Professor of Pediatrics at
the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of
Medicine, Director of the Nutrition Center at The
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and holds a Chair
in Gastroenterology and Nutrition. She is a pediatrician
and an expert in nutrition and growth in children with
chronic illnesses. Her research interests are in nutri-
tion-related growth in healthy children and those with
chronic illnesses including: obesity, sickle cell disease,
osteoporosis, cystic fibrosis, cerebral palsy, Crohn's
disease, HIV and congenital heart disease. She has
been extensively involved in pediatric nutrition clinical
care and research for more than 25 years.
Dr. Stallings plays a significant role in the community of
nutrition scientists and physicians as a member of the
Institute of Medicine, the Food and Nutrition Board of
the US National Academy of Sciences and the Council
of the American Society for Nutrition. She steered
the Institute of Medicine committee reports entitled
Nutrition Standards for Food in Schools: Leading
the Way Towards Healthier Youth, and School Meals:
Building Blocks for Healthy Children, that led to the
development of a new policy to improve the nutritional
quality of children's meals and school meals in the
United States. She has received research and teach-
ing awards from the American Society of Nutrition,
the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Institute of
Medicine, and the National Academies.
Positions and responsibilities as of Thursday, December 31, 2015
(a)
Position
Company
Country
Director (term of office
from April 26, 2012
to the end of the
Shareholders' Meeting
to approve the 2017
financial statements)
Member of the Board
of Directors' Social
Responsibility
Committee (since
February 19, 2015)
DANONE SA
(b)
France
Director
FITLY, digital health startup
United States
Position
Associations/Foundations/Other
Country
Professor of Pediatrics
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF
PHILADELPHIA, DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS,
THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
PERELMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
United States
Director,
The Nutrition Center
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA United States
Director,
Office of Faculty
Development
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
United States
Member
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES,
INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE
United States
Member of
International Research
Advisory Committee
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LA PLATA
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Argentina
(a) Offices shown in italics are not governed by Article L. 225-21 of the French commercial code
concerning multiple directorships.
(b) Listed company.
Positions and responsibilities held during the past five years
Position
Company
Country
Chairman of the Board
of Directors
DANONE INSTITUTE USA
(a)
United States
DANONE INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL
(a)
France
(a) The mission of these two organizations, which are established as non-profit associations,
is to promote research and education in the field of nutrition as well as the importance of
nutrition on health.