Bruno Colmant

Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, he also advises governments and business leaders in the field of economics. He was also a consular judge of the Brussels Commercial Court. In 2020, he was Head of Macro Research at Degroof Petercam Bank.

Colmant is also an author and co-author of more than 70 books and more than 5,000 articles and columns published since 1991.

Graduated with Honors from Solvay Business School (1984), Bruno Colmant is an expert in various professional and political circles. Bruno Colmant holds a PhD in Applied Economics (2000), a Master's degree Business engineering (1984) from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, a Master's degree in Tax (1995) and a Master of Business Administration (1989) from Purdue University (Krannert School of Management, Indiana, USA).

Colmant holds more than 20 business certifications in finance, management, accounting and tax, including American certifications: FRM, PRMIA, CFA, CISA, CGAP, CFSA, CFE, CSSA, CIA, etc. Bruno Colmant is also a chartered accountant and stockbroker.

After a career primarly within the ING Group, where he became CEO of ING Luxembourg and managing director of ING Belgium and CFO, he is appointed Director of the Office of the Minister of Finance and Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, Didier ReyndersIn 1999, he developed the notional interest scheme .

In 2000, Bruno Colmant became lecturer at numerous universities where he teaches Economics, Financial Management, Corporate Tax and Financial Accounting : Université Catholique de Louvain, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Université Saint-Louis, HEC-ULg, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Institut Catholique des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (ICHEC), École Royale Militaire (Bruxelles) and University of Luxembourg.

In 2007, he became President of the Brussels Stock Exchange and a director of NYSE Euronext. He played a major role in the merger between Euronext and NYSE.

In 2009, he was appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Ageas. Later in the same year, he joined Roland Berger Strategy Consultants as Global Head of the Financial Services.

In 2015, he was appointed Global Head of Financial Services of Roland Berger before joining Degroof Petercam Bank as a Head of Macro Research.

He advises numerous companies and is managing director of Brederode, UNIBRA Group and Union Wallonne des Entreprises (UWE).He is also a member and past Director of the Classe Technologie et Société of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium from May 2009 and member of various scholarly organizations (Mensa, High IQ Society, etc.).

In 2017, he was awarded Prix du livre politique 2017, recognized for his book: "L'Euro, une utopie trahie?"

Prix du livre politique 2017

Commander of the Order of Léopold

Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown

Médaille d'or des Élites du travail belge

Médaille du travail

Member of the Belgian Royal Academy

Knight of the Order of the Crown (Belgium)

President Belgian Finance Club

President Belgian Federal Digital Committee

Ambassador World Wide Fund

Board member Brussels Entreprises Commerce and Industry (BECI)

Board member UNION WALLONNE DES ENTREPRISES (UWE)

Member of the Steering Committee FORUM FINANCIER BELGE

Member of the Advisory Council TOP MANAGEMENT EUROPE

Member of the Advisory Board LOUVAIN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

Member JURY OF THE CEO and CFO OF THE YEAR (TRENDS) (Trends)

He holds a blog in l'Echo and regularly publishes articles in the fields of economics, tax, politics and social events. He appeared as a special guest on numerous Belgian, Swiss, French, Chinese television channels, in particular La Une, BFM Business , RTL-TVI .