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Camille FOHL, born in 1956, holds a Master in Applied Economics, orientation "Foreign Trade", from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
After a foreign trade traineeship in Belgium and in the ASEAN countries, he entered professional life in 1980 with Lux-Development, the Luxembourg Company for international cooperation.
He joined Banque Générale du Luxembourg (BGL) in 1986, where he held responsibilities mainly in retail and commercial/corporate banking, these at Executive Board level from 2000 to 2007. He was a member of the Supervisory Board of BGL from 2001 to 2017.
Within the Belgian-Dutch Fortis Group, which acquired BGL in 2000, Camille FOHL was from 2005 to 2007 the CEO of the cross border business line Commercial Banking. He was appointed to the Executive Committee of Fortis Group and of Fortis Bank in January 2008, responsible for Retail Banking and global communication.
After the bail-out of the failing Fortis Group in September/October 2008 through the states of the BENELUX union, in the context of the international financial crises, and the subsequent integration in 2009 of the Fortis Bank activities into the French BNP Paribas Group, Camille FOHL was from 2009 to 2012 an Executive Director of BNP Paribas Fortis Bank, Belgium, and also was at BNP Paribas Group level, responsible for the international retail banking of BNP Paribas in central and eastern Europe, and in Asia. In later capacities, he supervised these banking activities, a.o. functionally and/or as chairman at the level of the given supervisory boards, in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Serbia, Turkey, Nanjing (China) and Vietnam.
From 2013 to 2017, he served as BNP Paribas Group responsible in Germany, coordinating the development of the 13 entities of BNP Paribas in Germany.
Camille FOHL entered retirement in Luxembourg on September 1st, 2017.
As from October 26th, 2017, he serves as Chairman of the Board of directors of the Spuerkees, the "State and Savings Bank, Luxembourg".
Camille FOHL is married, and has 2 grown-up children.