Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> January 17, 2000
G. ALLEN ANDREAS serves as Chairman and Chief Executive of the Archer
Daniels Midland Company, a U.S. agribusiness with operations across the
globe. Mr. Andreas holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Valparaiso
University, and a Juris Doctorate from the Valparaiso University School
of Law. He was an attorney for the United States Treasury Department
from 1969 until joining the legal staff of the Archer Daniels Midland
Company in 1973. Appointed to Treasurer in 1986, Mr. Andreas relocated
to Europe in 1989 as Chief Financial Officer of European Operations, and
returned to the United States in 1994 as Vice President and Counsel to
the Executive Committee. He was appointed as a Member of the Office of
the Chief Executive in 1996, President and Chief Executive Officer in
1997, and assumed his current position as Chairman and Chief Executive
in January of 1999. Mr. Andreas is Chairman of ADM's Board of Directors,
and Chairman of ADM's Executive Committee. He is also a member of the
Supervisory Board of the A.C. Toepfer International Group with
headquarters in Germany, and on the Board of Directors of Gruma, S.A. in
Mexico. He serves as a member of the advisory boards of various business
operations in Latin America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific Region, and a
member of the International Policy on Agriculture, Food and Trade, the
International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, the
Corporate Council on Africa, the Trilateral Commission, and the Bretton
Woods Committee. In addition, he is a member of the State of Colorado
Bar and the American Bar Association. Profile
Mr. Andreas: ADM is in one line of business. It is an agribusiness
company which facilitates the transformation of
