François-Xavier de Donnea
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De Donnea (left) with Commercial Diplomat Colin Evans
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| 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 |
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| Born | (1941-04-29) 29 April 1941 (age 83) Edegem, Belgium |
| Political party | Reformist Movement |
| Alma mater | Catholic University of Louvain University of California, Berkeley Erasmus University, Rotterdam |
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François Xavier Gustave Marie Joseph Corneille Hubert, Knight de Donnea de Hamoir (born 29 April 1941[1]inEdegem, 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.
François-Xavier de Donnea was the defence minister and minister of the Brussels-Capital Region in the government Martens-IV from 1985 to 1988. He is currently a member of the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives for the political party MR.
In December 1990, he performed the wedding of the duke of Brabant and Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz in the City town hall.[2]
While échevin of Brussels, he called graffiti an "urban leprosis".[3] As the Mayeur of Brussels, he neglected the bust statue of Peter the Great[4] and gave a centerpiece attention to the bust statue of Baudouin of Belgium.[5] In 2001, his proposition to create a Tintin theme in the newly renovated Atomium was approved by the Hergé Foundation.[6] He also made it possible to exhibit publicly the Ishango bone at the Brussels' institut d'histoire naturelle.[7]
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.[8] In 2009, he was appointed President of the Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC).[9]
In 2014, as he ran for the 17th time for the Brussels Mayor office, his name was misspelled in the list of candidates, forcing him to run as "François de Donnea".[10] In March 2020, he stepped down from the Presidency of the insurance company Integrale, a subsidiary of Nethys.[11]
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| Preceded by | Mayor of Brussels 1995–2000 |
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| Preceded by | Minister-President of Brussels 2000–2003 |
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