Peter Praet (België) per 1 juni 2011 benoemd tot directielid Europese Centrale Bank (en)

Met dank overgenomen van Raad van de Europese Unie (Raad) i, gepubliceerd op vrijdag 25 maart 2011.

The European Council today adopted a decision appointing Peter Praet (Belgium) member of the executive board of the European Central Bank i for a term of eight years as from

1 June.

He will succeed Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell (Austria), whose term of office expires on

31 May.

Annex: Curriculum Vitae of Peter Praet.

Annex

Curriculum vitae Peter Praet

Peter Praet was appointed executive director of the National Bank of Belgium in 2000 and is responsible for international cooperation and financial stability. In 2002 he was also appointed to the Management Committee of the Belgian Banking, Finance and Insurance Commission (CBFA), where he is responsible for prudential policy for banking and insurance.

Before joining the National Bank, Mr. Praet served as chief of cabinet for the Belgian Minister of Finance from 1999-2000, as chief economist of Générale de Banque and Fortis Bank from 1988-1999, as professor of economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles from 1980-1987, and as economist at the International Monetary Fund from 1978-1980. Mr. Praet earned a Ph.D. in economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1980. He currently teaches money and banking at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and from 2001- 2004 he held the Chair of Business Ethics at the Faculté polytechnique and the Solvay Business School of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Mr. Praet serves on several high-level international committees, including the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems, the Committee on the Global Financial System, the Committee of European Banking Supervisors, and the Banking Supervision Committee of the European Central Bank. He is an alternate director of the Committee of G10 Governors. He is also co-chair of the Research Task Force of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

Mr. Praet is a member of the board of the European think tank BRUEGEL (Brussels European Global Economic Laboratory).

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Annex

PETER PRAET

Executive Director Born in Herchen (Germany), 20 January 1949

Nationality: Belgian

Mandates Executive Director of the National Bank of Belgium, in charge of International Cooperation and Financial Stability Member of the Management Committee of the Banking, Finance and Insurance Commission (CBFA), in charge of Banking/Insurance Prudential Policy

Alternate Director of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Alternate member of the Committee of Governors of the G10

Chairman of the Banking Supervision Committee of the European Central Bank (BSC) Chairman of the CGFS Working Group on Fixed income investors

Member Basel Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS) Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS)

Co-chair, Research Task Force of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Basel Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) Board of the Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory (BRUEGEL) Board of Directors of XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) High Council of Finance Comité des risques et établissements financiers systémiques (CREFS) International Advisory Council of the International centre for Financial Regulation

Academic functions: Money and Banking, Solvay Business School and Economics Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

Degrees Bachelors in economics - ULB (1971) Masters in economics - ULB (1972)

Ph.D. in economics - ULB (1980)