Roger de Staercke, Managing Director of the Federation of Belgian Industries (FIB) and first President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1958 to 1960.
Raffaele Vanni, former Secretary-General of the Union of Italian Workers (UIL), was President of the Economic and Social Committee (ESC) in Brussels from 1978 to 1980, having succeeded Fabrizia Baduel Glorioso who was elected to the European Parliament in June 1979.