Ernest-Antoine Seillière de Laborde (born 20 December 1937 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French entrepreneur and the heir to the Wendel empire (representing €730 million).

He graduated from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, studying in law and a former pupil of the École nationale d'administration.

[4] In 1990 and 2000 he was one of the top big linkers in the French corporate network [5] He succeeded Jean Gandois as leader of the CNPF in December 1997, after the dismissal of the appeal to cut the weekly working hours to 35 by the Lionel Jospin government.

Since winter 2005, Ernest-Antoine Seillière has been President of UNICE (renamed "BusinessEurope" in Janvier 2007), the federation of European business, based in Brussels.

[6] In March 2012, he published a book entitled "On n'est pas là pour se faire engueuler..." ("We are not here to be yelled at"), in which he analyzes the financial crisis, based on his experience as head of Medef and BusinessEurope.