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Place of Birth: Brussels metropolitan area, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
About Georges Jacobs
- Georges, Count Jacobs de Hagen (born 1940) is a leading Belgian businessman. Jacobs obtained a PhD degree in Law (1962) and a Licentiate in Economics (1964) from the Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium).
- He also obtained a MA degree in Economics at the University of California (Berkeley, U.S., 1965). Jacobs started his career as an economist with the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C.
- in 1966.
- In 1970, he joined the UCB Group and has been Chairman of the Executive Committee of UCB since 1987 until the end of 2004.
- Since January 2005 he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of UCB Group and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Delhaize Group.
- Georges Jacobs also serves on the Board of Directors of UCB, Belgacom, Bekaert, Spadel and SN Brussels Airlines.
- He is an Honorary Chairman of UNICE (Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe) and a member of the Management Committee and Honorary Chairman of the Federation of Belgian Companies. Jacobs is Chairman of the Belgo-Luxemburg-Polish Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Board of the American Chamber of Commerce and the British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium.
- He is also Member of the Board of Générale de Banque, IBM Belgium, Spadel S.A., L.I.V.
- N.V.
- (Groupe Carmeuse).
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