Morris Tabaksblat

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Morris Tabaksblat, Rotterdam 1937, is a Dutch 'Captain of industry'. He is mostly known as a former CEO of Unilever and chairman of the 'Tabaksblat' committee that drafted the 'Tabaksblat code'. Tabaksblat was educated at the gymnasium in The Hague and after that studied law at the Leiden University. He joined Unilever in 1964. During the first twenty years of his career at Unilever he had positions in marketing and sales in the Netherlands, Spain and Brazil.