# Fernand Collin

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'''Fernand Collin''' ([Antwerp](/source/Antwerp), 18 December 1897 – 11 December 1990), was a [Belgian](/source/Belgium) businessman. He was president of the [Kredietbank](/source/KBC_Bank) from 1938 to 1973 and was also a professor at the [Catholic University of Leuven](/source/Catholic_University_of_Leuven_(1834%E2%80%931968)).

At the start of [World War II](/source/World_War_II), Fernand Collin, together with [Alexandre Galopin](/source/Alexandre_Galopin) ([Société Générale de Belgique](/source/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_G%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_de_Belgique)) and [Max-Léo Gérard](/source/Max-L%C3%A9o_G%C3%A9rard) (Banque de Bruxelles) were given a mandate to manage the Belgian economy during the war. [Paul-Henri Spaak](/source/Paul-Henri_Spaak) told them in May 1940 ''Nous vous confions la Belgique'' (E: We trust you with Belgium).

He was CEO of the [pudding](/source/pudding) producing company ''Imperial Products'', which merged in 1968 with ''{{Interlanguage link multi|Devos Lemmens|nl}}'' into ''Continental Foods'' (it was sold to [Campbell Soup](/source/Campbell_Soup) in 1985). In 1962, he published an article in the [Yale Law Journal](/source/Yale_Law_Journal), where in a note on the ''Unit of Account'' he expanded on the idea of a [European currency](/source/Euro) in order to ''revitalize the international money markets''.<ref>The Unit of Account: Enforceability under American Law of Maintenance-of-Value Provisions in International Bonds, The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 71, No. 7 (June 1962), pp. 1294–1315</ref>

==Awards==
* 1971: Joost van den Vondelprijs

==See also==
* [Fernand Collin Prize for Law](/source/Fernand_Collin_Prize_for_Law)

==References==
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==Sources==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060523203319/http://fondationuniversitaire.be/nl/we_fernand.php Fernand Collin]
* Vandeputte Robert, ''Fernand Collin en zijn tijd'', Tielt, Lannoo, 1985

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