François, Baron Narmon (26 January 1934 – 14 March 2013) was a Belgian businessman and president of

Dexia Dexia N.V./S.A., or the Dexia Group, is a Franco-Belgian financial institution formed in 1996. At its peak in 2010, it had about 35,200 members of staff and a core shareholders' equity of €19.2 billion. In 2008, the bank entered severe ...

Group and the

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.Véronique POUILLARD, (1999), "François Narmon" in Cent grands patrons du vingtième siècle en Belgique,E. Buyst- G.- Kurgan-van Hentenryk éd., Bruxelles, A. Renier, pp. 164–165. From 2002 until 2004 he was a member of the

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. Born in

Jette Jette (; ) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the north-western part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, Ganshoren, Koekelberg, and Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, as well as the Fl ...

, Narmon obtained a licentiate degree as commercial engineer from the

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( École de commerce Solvay). He lectured on

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at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the

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, and made the local ''Gemeentekrediet'' into the financial enterprise

. He died on 14 March 2013 in

Meise Meise () is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish region of Belgium. The municipality comprises the towns of Meise proper and Wolvertem (a ''deelgemeente''), and several smaller villages like Sint-Brixius-Rode, Oppem, ...

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1934 births 2013 deaths People from Jette Flemish businesspeople Free University of Brussels (1834–1969) alumni Belgian International Olympic Committee members {{Belgium-business-bio-stub