Jacques Van Offelen
Jacques Louis Gustave Van Offelen was a Belgian liberal politician, burgomaster and minister for the PVV. He graduated from the Institut Supérieur de Commerce de l'Etat in Antwerp, and in 1939 became a licentiate in economy at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. He obtained a PhD from the University of Liège in 1943 and became a civil servant and docent.
He was burgomaster of Ukkel, a member of parliament and senator for the PVV in the district Brussels. Van Offelen was Minister of Foreign Trade and Minister for Economic Affairs in the Belgian government.
