The 86 World Car Awards jurors have voted Carlos Tavares the 2020 World Car Person of the Year.
PSA’s head honcho has been recognized with the prestigious award for returning the company to profitability, making the brands world-class players and making Opel profitable again, after finalizing the acquisition from General Motors 3 years ago.
The CEO’s accomplishments also include negotiating the merger with FCA, which will give birth to the fourth largest automaker worldwide after the Volkswagen Group, Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi and Toyota, and for integrating the electrification and mobility strategies.
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“It’s a great honor to receive this prestigious award, which I wish to dedicate to all the employees of the Groupe PSA, to its responsible and demanding social partners and to the supervisory board, which guarantees effective governance”, said Tavares. “Because among our values ‘win together, agility, efficiency’ includes the strength of the collective power, it is in the name of all of us that I accept your honor with humility.”
The award will be given to the 61-year old Portuguese at the 2020 New York Auto Show on Wednesday, April 8 (that is, if it goes ahead), when the winners of the World Car, World Urban Car, World Luxury Car, World Car Design and World Performance Car will be announced. You can read all about the finalists in each of the five different categories here.
Previous winners of the World Car Person of the Year were the late Sergio Marchionne, FCA CEO, in 2019, and Volvo Car Group’s President and CEO, Hakan Samuelsson, in 2018.
