---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-25-001227"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ECL"
cik: "0000031462"
company_name: "ECOLAB INC."
filed_at: "2025-02-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T09:44:56.236296+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ecolab appoints AB InBev CEO Michel Doukeris as independent director

## Summary
- Michel Doukeris, CEO of AB InBev since 2021, appointed to board effective Feb. 20, 2025.
- Director Arthur J. Higgins will not stand for re-election at May 8, 2025 annual meeting; no disagreement.
- Doukeris to join board committees; eligible for standard director compensation.
- Doukeris brings global executive experience in consumer industries and water sustainability.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-25-001227
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ECL
- cik: 0000031462
- company_name: ECOLAB INC.
- filed_at: 2025-02-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000155837025001227/0001558370-25-001227-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000155837025001227/ecl-20250218x8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-25-001227
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-25-001227.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-25-001227.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Arthur J. Higgins departed as Director at ECOLAB INC..
  - Action: not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: director Arthur J. Higgins informed the Board that he would not stand for re-election at the Company's annual meeting to be held on May 8, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000155837025001227/0001558370-25-001227-index.htm
- Executive change
  Michel Doukeris was appointed as Director at ECOLAB INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: appointed Michel Doukeris as a member of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000155837025001227/0001558370-25-001227-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.