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 the Catholic University of Leuven.

At the start of World War II, Fernand Collin, together with Alexandre Galopin (Société Générale de Belgique) and Max-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 [nl] into Continental Foods (it was sold to Campbell Soup in 1985). In 1962, he published an article in the Yale Law Journal, where in a note on the Unit of Account he expanded on the idea of a European currency in order to revitalize the international money markets.^[1]

Awards

• 1971: Joost van den Vondelprijs

See also

• Fernand Collin Prize for Law