Emile VAN LENNEP

Born on January 20, 1915 in Amsterdam. 
Died on 03 October 1996.

Education

Master's degree in law, University of Amsterdam, 1937

National Functions

1940-45: Foreign Exchange Institute, The Hague - Amsterdam

1945-48: Netherlands Central Bank, Amsterdam

1948-50: Financial Counsellor of the High Representative of the Crown in Indonesia

1950-51: Netherlands Central Bank

1951-69: - Treasurer-General in the Netherlands, Ministry of Finance. As such, he was responsible for the formation of economic policy, in particular of financial, budgetary and monetary policy; also in this capacity, he attended the annual meetings of the IMF, the IBRD and IDA. - Governmental Delegate to the Organisation for Applied Scientific Research in the Netherlands (TNO)

International functions inter alia:

- Chairman of the Monetary Committee, European Communities

- Netherlands' Delegate to the high level meetings of the Development Assistance Committee

- Vice-Chairman, Economic POlicy Committee, OECD

- Chairman, Working Party No. 3, OECD

1969-84: Secretary-General of the OECD