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Julien De Wilde to be nominated as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Agfa-Gevaert

Tuesday 11. March 2008 - After today's meeting, the members of the Board of Directors of Agfa-Gevaert NV announced their intention to nominate Julien De Wilde as Chairman of the Board of Directors following the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of April 29, 2008.

This follows the earlier announcement of the present Chairman Ludo Verhoeven that he would not be up for re-election.
 
Julien De Wilde has been an independent Director of the Board since April 2006 and has a large international experience, both in managing technical and operational activities of large companies and in managing worldwide sales and service organizations.
 
Julien De Wilde (°1944) obtained an engineering degree from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). From 1969 onwards he held various managerial positions at Texaco and in 1986 he was appointed member of the European Management Board of Texaco in New York. In 1988 he became head of the research and business development department of Recticel. A year later he became a member of the Executive Committee of Alcatell Bell, where he was responsible for strategy and general services. From 1995 to 1998 Julien De Wilde was CEO of Alcatel Bell and from 1999 to 2002 he was Executive Vice-President and member of the Executive Committee of Alcatel in Paris, responsible for Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, India and Africa. From July 1, 2002 to May 2006, he was CEO of the Bekaert Group.