Bruno Colmant joins the future group Degroof Petercam

Bruno Colmant will join the executive committee of the group that will result from the merger between Bank Degroof and Petercam, subject to regulatory approvals.

He will be appointed Head of Macro Research at Bank Degroof Petercam and will also perform some specific assignments as Group Economic Advisor.

Bruno Colmant holds a PhD in applied economics sciences and is a commercial engineer from the Solvay Business School Economics & Management (ULB). He is a member of the Académie Royale de Belgique. He holds a Master of Sciences from the Purdue University (USA) and a Master in Fiscal Sciences (ICHEC-ESSF).

Bruno Colmant began his career at Arthur Andersen, Dewaay and Sofina. He was managing director at ING (1996-2006), Cabinet head of the Belgian Finance ministry (2006-2007), CEO of the Brussels Stock Exchange, member of the management committee of NYSE Euronext and chairman and CEO of Euronext Brussels (2007- 2009) and Deputy CEO at AGEAS (2009-2011). Since 2011 he is academic advisor AGEAS and partner of the consulting firm Roland Berger.

He is a member of the Central Council for the Economy and lecturer in finance at the Vlerick Management School, UCL and at the Solvay Business School Economics & Management (ULB).