Emile (Emiel) van Lennep (15 January 19152 October 1996) was a Dutch official (''treasurer general''), diplomat and Minister of State.

Life

Van Lennep was born in

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as a son of Louis Henri van Lennep and Catharina Hildegonda Enschede. He studied

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from 1932 to 1937 at the

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of Amsterdam.Parlement & Politiek
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From 1951 to 1969 he was treasurer general, which is the highest official rank of the Dutch

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. From 1969 to 1984 he was secretary general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Van Lennep was instrumental in making the OECD a more effective forum for international cooperation. In the 1970s he was named several times to be a candidate for a function in the government of the Netherlands, but he did not have political aspirations. After his career at the OECD he was appointed to be

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from 1986 until his death in 1996. In 1987 he was appointed one of the members of a distinguished external panel to conduct a review of the

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. The results of the review were issued in 1989 as the ''Report of a Panel on the Role of the Asian Development Bank in the 1990s.'' He married Alexa Labberton and had two sons and two daughters. In 1990 he was rewarded with a Four Freedoms Award in the category '' freedom from want''.Roosevelt Institute
Laureates
Van Lennep died in 1996 at the age of 81 years.

References

*Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland 6
biography
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