The European Round Table for Industry (ERT) has a long history of promoting competitiveness and prosperity in Europe. In April 1983, 17 leading European business leaders came together to launch ERT. They were then, as we are now, united by a belief that European co-operation between industry, policymakers and all stakeholders is essential to strengthen Europe’s place in the world.
Today, ERT Members include CEOs and Chairs from around 60 of Europe’s largest companies in the industrial and technological sector. We are committed to creating a strong, open and competitive Europe through which we promote sustainable growth, jobs and prosperity for all.
We publish reports and papers, which we share with the public, decision makers in European and global institutions and national governments. They are the basis for discussion and action. We advocate policies that underpin the values of freedom, tolerance, equality and openness.
Companies led by ERT Members represent
- 5 million direct jobs globally
- €2,000 billion combined annual revenues
- €60 billion investment in R&D each year
How ERT Works
- ERT Members meet twice a year in Plenary Session, the principal ERT decision-making body, where key issues are identified and discussed.
- ERT Members nominate an Associate. An Associates Meeting precedes each Plenary Session.
- Working Groups are chaired by ERT Members and composed by Associates and company experts. They work on key issues, develop recommendations and report back to the Plenary Session.
ERT is working on the following topics:
CFO Platform
CFO Platform 
Competition Policy
Competition Policy 
Competitiveness & Innovation
Competitiveness & Innovation 
Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation 
Energy Transition & Climate Change
Energy Transition & Climate Change 
Jobs, Skills & Impact
Jobs, Skills & Impact 
Securing Europe’s Place in a New World Order
Securing Europe’s Place in a New World Order 
Trade & Market Access
Trade & Market Access 
Anthony Gooch Gálvez is a dual Spanish & UK national with 30 years of experience as a senior official on the international stage working closely with EU & global business & industry.
In his 15 years as Director at OECD, he worked across major policy areas to develop strategic responses to successive crises: recovery from the GFC included G20-mandated efforts to reform international tax standards to establish fairer tax systems to close down tax havens & tax the digital economy (BEPS). To implement the Paris Agreement, he promoted key OECD standards & work on Climate Change, making significant contributions to OECD projects on the Digital Transformation & Artificial Intelligence, Trade in Value Added & MNE Guidelines, the Pandemic & War in Ukraine , developing the OECD COVID Hub, To put wellbeing at the centre of policymaking, he conceived the award-winning OECD Better Life Index . He was closely involved in eight accession processes in Europe & Latin America expanding OECD to its current membership of 38.
Orchestrating an ambitious stakeholder strategy, he created the OECD Global Parliamentary Network, engaging key legislators worldwide, including a strategic partnership with the European Parliament, to contribute on global tax reform & artificial intelligence. He was responsible for managing the OECD’s relations with institutional partners Business at OECD & TUAC. As Director of the OECD Forum, he led efforts to engage all stakeholders, establishing partnerships with companies & promoted inclusivity on gender & youth.
As an EU Commission official, trade negotiator & diplomat over 14 years representing the EU, he co-ordinated the groundbreaking EU/Mexico Free Trade Agreement, subsequently being appointed EU Trade Spokesman & Special Adviser to Commissioner Pascal Lamy. His experience included negotiations at WTO Ministerial Meetings in Seattle in 1999 & Doha in 2001 to launch the Doha Trade Round & complete China’s Accession to WTO , the EU Everything But Arms Initiative & WTO Doha Public Health Declaration securing access to medicines for killer diseases. He helped manage high profile trade disputes such as Boeing/Airbus & US steel tariffs.
After an EU Visiting Fellowship in the US, he represented the EU in its Embassy in the US in Washington DC during the complex post 911 period in Transatlantic Relations & subsequently the EU Embassy in the UK in London before being headhunted by OECD.
He began his career as a consultant on EU affairs representing companies & trade associations to EU institutions on Single Market policy issues.
Most recently he has served as Senior Strategic Adviser at Brussels-based think-tank Re-Imagine Europa. He is an Adjunct Professor at IE University in Madrid and Visiting Lecturer at USC in California. He is also a member of the Academic Council of the Martens Centre for European Studies.
A recent graduate of IESE Business School ´s Advanced Management Programme, he holds a Postgraduate degree from the Institut dÉtudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) & an MA from Cambridge University.
He is married with 3 children and fluent in English, Spanish, French and Italian.
ERT Secretariat
Philippe Adriaenssens
Policy Director
Energy Transition & Climate Change
CFO Platform
