{{no footnotes|date=September 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Robert Lemaignen | office = [[List of European Commission portfolios#Development|European Commissioner for Overseas Development]] | president = [[Walter Hallstein]] | term_start = 7 January 1958 | term_end = 9 January 1962 | predecessor = Position established | successor = [[Henri Rochereau]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1893|3|15|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Blois]], [[French Third Republic|France]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1980|4|3|1893|3|15|df=y}} | death_place = [[Paris]], [[France]] | image = Signature of three financing agreements between the EEC and Mali (Robert Lemaignen).tif | caption = Lemaignen in 1961 }} '''Robert Lemaignen''' (15 March 1893 – 3 April 1980) was a French [[European Commissioner]].

He was appointed as one of the first French European Commissioners on the first [[Hallstein Commission]] from 1958 to 1962. He did not remain a member of the second Hallstein commission and was succeeded as commissioner by [[Henri Rochereau]]. Lemaignen was responsible for [[European Commissioner for Development & Humanitarian Aid|Overseas development]].

Lemaignen had previously been the vice-president of the French Employers Federation (with extensive African experience).

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==External links== * [http://www.fep.up.pt/investigacao/seminarios/04.10.15_Maes.pdf NATIONAL BANK OF BELGIUM, August 2004 Working Paper on Macroeconomic and Monetary policy-making at the European Commission 1957 to 1969] * [http://www.ena.lu/europe/19571968-successes-crises/overseas-countries-european-economic-community.htm Robert Lemaignen 1960 document on the association of Overseas Territories with the European Community]

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