Jacques de Groote

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Jacques de Groote (born May 25, 1932 ) is a Belgian financier and banker.

Career

From July 1955 to January 1957 he was an assistant at Cambridge University . De Groote started out as a financier in January 1957. During the first months of 1960 he worked as secretary in preparation for the decolonization of the Belgian Congo. From April 1960 to May 1963 he was assistant to the Belgian representative at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington . In May 1963 he joined the National Bank in Belgium, where he worked in the field of international relations. In July 1965 he moved to the position of financial advisor to the Belgian delegation of the OECD in Paris, where he led several working groups examining the first drafts of the multilateral treaties guaranteeing private investment. Between March 1966 and May 1969 he held the position of economic advisor to the government of the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he also worked as a financial advisor to the local national bank.

From 1963 to 1992 he taught as a professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Namur (Belgium), where he gave lectures on money and credit theories, money mechanisms and current problems in the international financial world. 1963 to 1973 he held an extraordinary professorship at the University of Leuven . From 1957 to 1960 and 1963 to 1965 he was an assistant professor at the Catholic University in Lille (France), where he gave courses on structural economies and the history of economic thought. De Groote holds an MA from the University of Cambridge and degrees in Law, Economics and Political Science from his alma mater at the University of Leuven.

From 1973 to 1994 he was Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and from 1973 to 1991 Executive Director of the World Bank (IBRD). During this time he actively supported some African representatives so that the IMF and the World Bank could initiate closer economic cooperation with them. In addition to his work in the Congo, De Groote also held the position of Director of the Research Department of the National Bank of Belgium from April 1971 to November 1973. Within the IMF, in which he was active until 1994, De Groote represented a group of countries, which also included Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic.

He was also active in supranational institutions such as B. in the International Finance Corporation (IFC) or the International Development Association (IDA).

De Grootes worked u. a. in Belgium , Switzerland , the Congo and Rwanda , in countries of the former Eastern Bloc including the Czech Republic .

Honors

De Groote has received the order Leopold I . in the Grand Officer class, the second highest Belgian state award. He is also a bearer of the High Order of Officers of Orange-Nassau (Luxembourg), the Order for Services to Austria, the Order for Services to Luxembourg, the Hungarian Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Golden Palm of Zaire.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://cadtm.org/The-Life-and-Times-of-Jacques-de
  2. ↑ a b http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Jacques-DeGroote/49353658
  3. ↑ http://www.egalite.be/?p=6287  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.egalite.be  
  4. ↑ http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=10015
personal data
SURNAME De Groote, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian financier and banker
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1932