François-Xavier de Donnea
François -Xavier de Donnea ( born April 29, 1941 in Edegem ), full name Marie Gustave François Xavier Joseph Corneille Hubert de Chevalier de Donnea Hamoir, is a Belgian politician of the party Mouvement Réformateur (MR) and Emeritus Professor of Economics. He is a longstanding parliamentarians, former Defense Minister and Prime Minister of the Brussels Capital Region. At the local level he was mayor of Brussels. Today he is a member of the Chamber of Deputies.
Curriculum vitae
François -Xavier de Donnea was born in Edegem the son of a Lüttichers and a Antwerpenerin. For this reason, he has mastered the French language as well as the Netherlands.
He graduated in 1963, his studies of applied economics at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL ). He then earned a Master of Business Administration ( MBA) from the University of California, Berkeley ( 1965), a license in Economics ( UCL, 1968) and eventually received his doctorate in 1971 as a doctor of economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
His academic career he continued at UCL, where he first held a position as lecturer and assistant and in 1980 became a professor of economics. Since 2006 he is professor emeritus.
Political career
In his family, François-Xavier de Donnea was the first to be politically active. His first steps in politics he made in 1974 as Head of Cabinet of Etienne Knoops, former State Secretary for Economic Affairs and a member of the Rassemblement Wallon (RW). From 1976 to 1977 he was Deputy Head of Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Trade. Together with Knoops, Gol and Perin he joined after a short time to the Liberals of the particle Réformateur Libéral (PRL, today MR), where he quickly rose in the internal party hierarchy ( Secretary 1982-1983 ).
He received his first mandate in 1981 as a co-opted senator. In 1983, de Donnea was then in the government under Wilfried Martens ( CVP), the Office of the State Secretary for Development Cooperation. Two years later the post of Minister of the Brussels Region and the Minister of Defense, he was entrusted (1985 to 1988). During this time he got the nickname " Top Gun " ( based on the film ), because he liked to show in action in front of the press as a tank driver or co- pilot of an F- 16.
After his time as minister was actively de Donnea as parliamentarians in the Senate, and finally in the European Parliament in the Chamber of Deputies. This allows him to focus on the city of Brussels, in 1995 took over the mayor's office. In this function he performed, among others, in 1999, the civil marriage ceremony between the Belgian Crown Prince Philippe and Mathilde d' Udekem d' Acoz.
In 2000, he lost the mayoral election in Brussels against Freddy Thielemans (PS). However, he took over the same year, the Office of the Prime Minister of the Brussels Capital Region, as the outgoing Prime Minister Jacques Simonet ( MR) would take up his mandate as mayor of Anderlecht. After the regional elections of 2003 de Donnea announced that he no longer wanted to stand as prime minister and was available from Daniel Ducarme ( MR) replaced in this office.
In 2008, de Donnea returned surprisingly back into the spotlight when he ( cdH ) was appointed " royal mediator " on July 17 by King Albert II together with Karl -Heinz Lambertz (PS) and Raymond Long Dries to provide solutions to the ongoing to find state crisis.
Since the end of that contract François -Xavier de Donnea is rare entered politics in appearance.
Honors
De Donnea is Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold II and Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold. He also carries numerous foreign awards: Officer of the French Legion of Honor, Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Grand Cross of Merit of the Italian Republic, the Grand Cross of the Swedish Order of the North Star and many others.
He also contributes since 1998 the honorary title of Minister of State.