- Fernand Collin
Fernand Collin (
Antwerp ,18 December 1897 -11 December 1990 ), was a Belgian businessman. He was president of the Kredietbank from 1938 to 1973 and was also a professor at theCatholic University of Leuven .At the start of
World War II , Fernand Collin, together withAlexandre Galopin (Société Générale de Belgique ) andMax Léo Gérard (Banque de Bruxelles) were given a mandate to manage the Belgian economy during the war.Paul-Henri Spaak told them in May 1940 "Nous vous confions la Belgique" (E: We trust you with Belgium).He was CEO of the
pudding producing company "Imperial Products", which merged in 1968 with "Devos-Lemmens" into "Continental Foods" (it was sold toCampbell Soup in 1985). In 1962, he published an article in theYale Law Journal , where in a note on the "The Unit of Account" he expanded on the idea of a European currency in order to "to revitalize the international money markets". [The Unit of Account: Enforceability under American Law of Maintenance-of-Value Provisions in International Bonds, The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 71, No. 7 (Jun., 1962), pp. 1294-1315]Awards
* 1971: Joost van den Vondelprijs
References
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Fernand Collin Prize for Law ource
* [http://www.fondationuniversitaire.be/nl/we_fernand.php Fernand Collin]
* Vandeputte Robert, "Fernand Collin en zijn tijd", Tielt, Lannoo, 1985
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