François-Xavier de Donnea

François-Xavier de Donnea
De Donnea (left) with Commercial Diplomat Colin Evans
Minister-President of Brussels
In office 18 October 2000 – 6 June 2003
Preceded by	Jacques Simonet
Succeeded by	Daniel Ducarme
Mayor of Brussels
In office 21 May 1995 – 18 October 2000
Preceded by	Freddy Thielemans
Succeeded by	Freddy Thielemans
Personal details
Born	(1941-04-29) 29 April 1941 Edegem, Belgium
Political party	Reformist Movement
Alma mater	Catholic University of Louvain University of California, Berkeley Erasmus University, Rotterdam

François Xavier Gustave Marie Joseph Corneille Hubert, Knight de Donnea de Hamoir (born 29 April 1941^[1] in Edegem, Antwerp) is a Belgian politician and a former mayor of the City of Brussels and Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region. He is also a former member of the Olivaint Conference of Belgium.

He was also the defence minister and minister of the Brussels-Capital Region in the government Martens-IV from 1985 to 1988. He's currently a member of the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives for the political party MR. In december 1999 he performed the wedding of the duke of Brabant and Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz in the City town hall.^[2]

In 2006 he became a board member of WildlifeDirect.

On 17 July 2008 he was one of three senior Belgian politicians commissioned by King Albert II to investigate ways of enabling constitutional reform talks in the light of the long-running Belgian constitutional crisis.^[3]

Honours

•  Belgium:
  • Croix Civique.^[4]
  • Minister of State by Royal Decree.^[4]
  • Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Leopold II.^[4]
  • Grand Officer in the Order of Leopold.^[4]
• Officer of the Legion of Honour.^[4]
• Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.^[4]
• Knight Grand Cross in the Royal Order of the Polar Star.^[4]
• Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Dannebrog.^[4]
• Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Merit, Korea.^[4]
• Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Liberator.^[4]
• Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.^[4]
• Knight Grand Officer in the Order of the Oak Crown.^[4]
• Knight Grand Officer in the Order of Merit, France..^[4]
• Knight Grand Officer in the Order of Isabella the Catholic.^[4]
• Knight of the Order of Saint Stanislaus.^[4]

References