A typically worldly, multilingual Dutchman Gerrit Wagner, is the new chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell, a globe-spanning industrial empire that employs 165,000 people.

A typically worldly, multilingual Dutchman, who spent part of his youth as an anti-Nazi resistance fighter, has just taken over the top job in a globe-spanning industrial empire that employs 165,000 people, owns and charters a fleet of 200 ships and lately has encountered some rough weather. Gerrit (“Gerry”) Wagner…