Alain Zenner (born 20 February 1946 in

Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in ...

) is a Belgian politician. He served as

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from 1999 to 2007, Government commissioner for the

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from 1999 to 2003 and State Secretary for the Minister of Energy for a brief period in 2003.

Biography

He was born in

and graduated with a doctor of Laws at age of 22 years from the University of Ghent. He completed his studies with a Master of Comparative Law at the University of Chicago Law School in 1969. He practices as a lawyer in

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and conduct a career assistant to the Law Faculty of the Free University of Brussels. Since 1991, he was elected to the

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on behalf of the Liberal Reform Party and then the Reform Movement. When the Forges de Clabecq (a steel mill located 20 km from Brussels) was declared bankrupt by the Commercial Court of Nivelles in 1996, Zenner was designated as liquidator for the company. The closure was symbolic for the decline of Walloon industry. Opposing him was Roberto D'Orazio, a worker of Italian origin, son of immigrant worker and leader of the delegation of the Socialist labor union

FGTB The General Labour Federation of Belgium (french: Fédération Générale du Travail de Belgique, or FGTB; nl, Algemeen Belgisch Vakverbond, ABVV) is a socialist national trade union federation in Belgium. It was founded in 1945. It is affiliated ...

, supported by the

Workers' Party of Belgium The Workers' Party of Belgium (french: Parti du Travail de Belgique, PTB; nl, Partij van de Arbeid van België, PVDA; ) is a Marxism, Marxist and Socialism, socialist political parties in Belgium, political party in Belgium. It is one of the few ...

. In late November 2009, Alain Zenner was appointed liquidator of Royal Excelsior Mouscron, football club playing in Jupilerproleague (1st Belgian division championship).Alain Zenner (dir.), ''Face à la criminalité organisée en matière fiscale'', Éditions IEC, 2001, 243 p.

References

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