The Cercle de Lorraine or Club van Lotharingen is a

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business club, located in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

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. The club was founded in 1998, and it wants to bring together, distinguished and representative personalities from the Belgian

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community, French speaking (

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, south part of Belgium) as well as Dutch speaking (

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, north part of Belgium), who are united within an honorary committee.

Notable members

Albert Karaziwan Albert Karaziwan (born 1958) is a Syrian-Belgian businessman who owns and operates Semlex Group, a Belgian identification document and device production company notable for supplying over a dozen African nations with passports or other ID documen ...

, Syrian-Belgian businessman * Baron

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 ...

, Union Chimique Belge *

Luc Bertrand Luc Jacques Leon Cesar, Baron Bertrand (born 14 February 1951) is a Belgian businessman. He is the CEO of Ackermans & van Haaren, a company active in construction, dredging, and environmental services, human resources services, financial services ...

, Ackermans & Van Haaren * Frank Beuselinck, DHL BeLux *

Karel Boone Karel, Baron Boone is a retired Belgium, Belgian businessman, who was mainly active in the food industry in the later 20th century. Education He obtained a master's degree as a Commercial Engineer at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Be ...

Lotus Bakeries Lotus Bakeries is a Belgian biscuit company, founded in 1932, with its headquarters in Lembeke, Kaprijke, Belgium. Lotus is known for its speculoos biscuits and biscuit-based products, branded as Lotus Biscoff in the United States, United Kingd ...

* Baron

Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer Daniel, Baron Cardon de Lichtbuer (16 November 1930 – 26 July 2022) was a Belgian businessman, mainly active in the Belgian banking sector. Education He obtained a PhD degree in Law (1953) and a MBA degree (1955) from the Catholic Universi ...

* Baron Dominique Collinet,

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* Viscount

Étienne Davignon Étienne, Count Davignon (born 4 October 1932 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Belgian politician, businessman, and former vice-president of the European Commission. Career After receiving a Doctorate of Law from the Catholic University of Louvain, ...

Société Générale de Belgique The ' ( nl, Generale Maatschappij van België; literally "General Company of Belgium") was a large Belgian bank and later holdings company which existed between 1822 and 2003. The ''Société générale'' was originally founded as an investme ...

* Baron

Paul De Keersmaeker Paul, Baron De Keersmaeker (14 July 1929 – 16 December 2022) was a Belgian businessman, politician and chairman of PA Europe. Early life and education De Keersmaeker was born on 14 July 1929. He obtained a PhD degree in law and a bachelor's d ...

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* Count Jean-Pierre de Launoit, Axa-Royale Belge *

Jean-Marie Delwart Jean-Marie Delwart is a Belgian businessman. Career He is Chairman of Belgocodex S.A., Chairman of Biotec S.A., Chairman of Hoccinvest S.A., and he is a member of the Belgian business club Cercle de Lorraine The Cercle de Lorraine or Club van Lo ...

, Floridienne * Baron Paul de Meester, Besix * Rik De Nolf, Roularta Media Group and VTM * Chevalier Claude Desseille, Winterthur group * Count Diego du Monceau de Bergendal, GIB Group * Baron Donald Marc Fallon, Cimenteries CBR * Baron

Albert Frère Albert, Baron Frère (4 February 1926 – 3 December 2018) was a Belgian billionaire businessman. Early life Frère grew up as a son of a nail merchant and helped in the business since an early age. His father died when Frère was 17; Frère h ...

, Bruxelles Lambert group *

Jean Gandois Jean Gandois, AM (7 May 1930 – 7 August 2020) was a French businessman. Early life He was born in Nieul, Haute-Vienne. He was a student at the École polytechnique, where he graduated in 1949 as an engineer of bridges and road construction. ...

, Suez * Count Maurice Lippens, Fortis *

Gérard Mestrallet Gérard Mestrallet (, born 1 April 1949 in Paris, France) is a French manager who served as chairman of the board of directors of Engie and as CEO from 2008 to 2016. He is also the chairman of Suez. Early life and education Mestrallet received d ...

, Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux * Baron Baudouin Michiels, Kraft Foods * Baroness Solange Schwennicke, Delvaux-Dujardin group *

Michel Tilmant Michel Tilmant (born 21 July 1952) is a banker and the former CEO of ING Group, a globally operating banking and insurance business based in the Netherlands. Biography Tilmant, a French language, French speaking Belgium, Belgian, graduated from ...

, ING Group *

Christian Van Thillo Christian Van Thillo (born 25 March 1962 in Antwerp, Belgium) is a Belgian businessman. He was Chief Executive Officer of DPG Media, a leading family-owned Belgian media concern that owns print media and broadcast media in Belgium and the Nether ...

, De Persgroep * Roland Vaxelaire, Carrefour Belgium * Baron Maurice Velge, Velge International * Luc Willame, Glaverbel *

Philippe Wilmès Philippe Wilmès (4 March 1938 – 24 May 2010) was a Belgian banker, businessman, and professor. Early life Wilmès was orphaned at a young age when his parents were killed in the bombing of Limal during World War II. He was raised by his grandp ...

, Société Fédérale d'Investissement * Count Dr. Ignace De Baere, De Eik NV

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* Gentlemen's clubs in Belgium Economy of Belgium Trade associations based in Belgium 1998 establishments in Belgium Organisations based in Brussels {{Belgium-stub

Notable members

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