Hubert Detremmerie (26 March 1930;

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–9 November 2008;

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) was a Belgian businessman and banker. From 1955 until he retired in March 1995, he worked at BACOB Bank (now part of Belfius), the bank of the Belgian Catholic labor organisation, finally as chairman of its managing board. From 1995 until 2001, he served as a director of Lernout & Hauspie. He served as a member of the advisory board to the Belgian Ministry of Finance for Financial Institutions and Markets, the Council of Labor, the

King Baudouin Foundation The King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) ( nl, Koning Boudewijnstichting, KBS; french: Fondation Roi-Baudouin) is an independent, pluralistic foundation based in Brussels (Belgium). It seeks to change society for the better and invests in inspiring proj ...

, and the Belgian ''National Counsel for the Cooperation Among Labor, Business and Government''. He was a member of the

Coudenberg group The Coudenberg group ( nl, Coudenberggroep, french: Groupe Coudenberg) was a Belgian federalist think-tank, it was named after the place where the members met, the Coudenberg, one of the seven hillocks on which the centre of Brussels has been built ...

, a Belgian federalist

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. Together with

Wilfried Martens Wilfried Achiel Emma Martens (; 19 April 1936 – 9 October 2013) was a Belgian politician who served as prime minister of Belgium from 1979 to 1981 and from 1981 to 1992. A member of the Flemish Christian People's Party, during his premiership ...

Alfons Verplaetse Alfons "Fons" Remi Emiel, Viscount Verplaetse (19 February 1930 – 15 October 2020) was a Belgian economist who served as Governor of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) from 1989 until 1999. He was one of the architects of the devaluation of the ...

, and Jef Houthuys, he met at Poupehan between 1982 and 1987 to discuss the social and economic situation of Belgium.Hugo De Ridder, ''Omtrent Wilfried Martens'', Lannoo. 1991

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Social Europe after the Euro
(The Hubert Detremmerie Seminar] 1930 births 2008 deaths 20th-century Belgian businesspeople Belgian trade unionists People from Deerlijk {{Belgium-business-bio-stub