Emiel van Lennep
Jonkheer Emiel ( Emile ) van Lennep ( born January 20, 1915 in Amsterdam, † 2 October 1996 in The Hague) was a Dutch civil servant and minister of state.
Biography
Studies and top officials of the Ministry of Finance
His father Jonkheer Dr. Louis Henri van Lennep was not only active as a merchant in the trading and banking company Van Eghen & Co. in Amsterdam, but also Chamberlain in foreign trade and service of Queen Wilhelmina.
After attending a grammar school he studied from 1932 to October 1937 Law at the University of Amsterdam. After graduating cum laude, he was first a lawyer, before in 1940 he authorized officer in the foreign exchange institute was. After he received in 1945 procurators at the Dutch Central Bank De Nederlandsche Bank.
In 1948, he became a civil servant in the Department of Finance of Batavia (Jakarta ) in the Dutch East Indies. In 1949 he was briefly Financial Advisor to the High Representative of the Dutch crown in Indonesia. Between 1949 and 1950 he was head of the financial department of the High Commissioner of the Netherlands in Indonesia.
In 1950 he returned to the Netherlands and was re- authorized representative of the Dutch Central Bank.
In 1951, van Lennep as treasurer ( Accumulation - Generaal ) a top position in the Ministry of Finance ( Ministerie van for Finance ), a position he held until September 30, 1969. In this role he was also a member of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF), and the temporary Chairman of the Monetary Committee of the European Economic Community ( EEC). At the same time it was during this eighteen- year career of one of the most important advisor to the Minister of Finance and also had after leaving that office still own office in the Ministry of Finance. Successor as treasurer of the Treasury was Willem Drees Jr., the son of the longtime Prime Minister Willem Drees.
In September 1963, he declined an appointment as Secretary of State for Transport and Water as well as from 1967, the Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Prime Minister Piet de Jong.
General of the OECD
After his appointment as Secretary General of the OECD, he joined this ministry as the Successor of Thorkil Kristensen officially on September 30, 1969. Right at the beginning of his term in November 1970, he rebuked the British Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath. Because inflation in the UK was " one of the most serious inflation problems of all 22 OECD countries", as he presented the OECD report. His tenure was 1975, a further financial crisis due to the increase of foreign exchange surpluses of OPEC. In 1976 he held a visiting professor lectures on "Basic problems of the world economic order " at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
The Office of the Secretary General of the OECD, he held fifteen years until its replacement by Jean -Claude Paye on 1 October 1984 after previously the favorite had renounced as a successor to the Federal Finance and Economy Minister Manfred Lahnstein to this office and, instead, a board member of Bertelsmann was.
In April 1985, he was temporarily Special Envoy of the government to negotiate with Venezuela over the oil refinery of Royal Dutch Shell in Curacao and with Argentina over the COGASCP pipeline.
For his services he received an honorary title of Minister of State has been (Minister van State ) awarded for life on April 29, 1986.
As such, he was from August 1991 until his death on the Advisory Council for European economic and monetary integration.
In April 1954, he was nominated for his services to the Commander of the Order of Orange- Nassau, and in August 1984 the Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion. In addition, he was also beaten to justice Knights of St John in 1984.