Remi Vermeiren (born 23 February 1940 in

Dendermonde Dendermonde (; french: Termonde, ) is a city in the Flemish province of East Flanders in Belgium. The municipality comprises the city of Dendermonde and the towns of Appels, Baasrode, Grembergen, Mespelare, Oudegem, Schoonaarde, and Sint-Gillis-b ...

) is a

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banker and businessman.

Education

He went to high school at the Royal Athenaeum of Dendermonde and graduated as licentiate in commercial and financial sciences at the Hoger instituut voor Handels- en Bestuurswetenschapen in

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(evening education).

Career

He started his career at the

Kredietbank KBC Group is a Belgian universal multi-channel bank-insurer, focusing on private clients and small and medium-sized enterprises in Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. It was created in 1998 through the merger of Kredietbank ...

(KBC), and became President of the board of directors of the

KBC Group KBC Group is a Belgian universal multi-channel bank-insurer, focusing on private clients and small and medium-sized enterprises in Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. It was created in 1998 through the merger of Kredietbank ...

at the merger of KBC, ABB and CERA in 1998. He is a leading member of the business club De Warande. He is a member of the board of

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and since 2005 non-executive, independent director of

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. Remi Vermeiren is one of the authors of ''The manifesto for the separation of Belgium'' (Dutch: Het Manifest voor de opsplitsing van België) which was drafted by the

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''In De Warande''.

Sources

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