Skip to main navigation Skip to main content
Carroll School of Management
Chief Executives Club
Carroll School of Management
  • Search
  • BC.edu Links
CEO Club CEO Club
André Calantzopoulos - 2019

ARCHIVES

Directory A to Z Listing
Search
Close
Close

BC.EDU LINKS

Boston College
  • Boston College
  • About BC
  • Admission
  • Academics
  • Research
  • Campus Life
  • Jesuit, Catholic

Resources

  • Academic Calendar
  • BC Magazine
  • BC News
  • Directories
  • Webcams
  • Offices, Services, Resources
  • Formation
  • Athletics
  • Global
  • Agora Portal
  • Emergency
  • Jobs at BC
  • Libraries
  • Bookstore
  • Maps & Directions
  • Hours
  • Events
  • BC Dining
Close

André Calantzopoulos

Chief Executive Officer, Philip Morris International

A Conversation with André Calantzopoulos, Chief Executive Officer, Philip Morris International

André Calantzopoulos, chief executive officer of Philip Morris International (PMI), addressed the May 3 meeting of the Boston College Chief Executives Club. Calantzopoulos spoke about the company’s vision to create a smoke-free future backed by science, technology, and innovation to offer less harmful choices to those who would otherwise continue smoking. In discussing the current state of the company’s work to bring new products to market, Calantzopoulos said, “It’s only through working with regulators that you can find solutions. And our industry, in particular, has to be much more collaborative.” To date, PMI has invested more than $6 billion in the research and development, manufacturing, and commercialization of smoke-free products, with approximately 400 dedicated scientists and engineers. Calantzopoulos and other company officials have said that at least 38 percent of their net revenues will come from smoke-free products like the IQOS heated tobacco line by 2025. Currently, PMI employs approximately 77,000 people worldwide, and at the close of 2018, it reported net revenues of $29.6 billion.

View Photo Gallery

Download Podcast

Takeaway

Problem with Cigarettes

"Most people believe the that the problem is tobacco, is nicotine. I’m not saying they are innocuous, but the real problem is combustion."

Takeaway

New Standards

"We knew very well, because of the past, that our credibility starts at zero, so the science should be as bulletproof as possible, because there is a lot of controversy about tobacco science from the past."

Takeaway

Alternatives

"Our job is to explain to consumers what the problem is and then offer alternatives. But governments have a role to play...in this particular industry, given the sensitivity, the controversy of cigarettes, all the emotions around them, it’s even more difficult for people to move fast."

Press Coverage

 

AP News

Philip Morris International CEO Speaks at Boston College Chief Executives Club

 


Fox Business

Philip Morris CEO: Smokeless ‘transformation’ for the company is like no other

 


InsideSources

The CEO of the World’s Biggest Cigarette Company Makes His Pitch for “A Smoke-Free World”

 


 

 

Back To Top
Back To Top
Chief Executives Club
Boston College
Carroll School of Management
22 Stone Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3808

CEO Club

  • Accessibility
  • Legal
  • Emergency
  • Notice of Nondiscrimination

Apply

Visit

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn

Archives

  • Leonard S. Schleifer
  • Klaus Schwab
  • Edward H. Bastian
  • ARCHIVES LIST

Contact

  • Call: (617) 552-0921
  • Fax: (617) 552-2398
  • Email: ceoclub@bc.edu
Boston College

Copyright © 2025 Trustees of Boston College