Jean Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers

Jean Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers   (politician)
Born	Braine-l'Alleud 2 July 1907 Braine-l'Alleud
Died	17 May 1991 (Age 83) Ophain-Bois-Seigneur-Isaac
Nationality	Belgium
Children	Bernard Snoy et d'Oppuers
Member of	Bilderberg/Steering committee
President of the European League for Economic Cooperation, Bilderberg Steering Committee  European League of Economic Cooperation/President In office 1982 - 1984  Egmont Institute/President  In office 1966 - 1977 Preceded by Fernand Van Langenhove Succeeded by Henri Simonet

Jean Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers was a Belgian economist who played an important role in post-WW2 economic developments, including internationally. For example, he was involved in the implementation of the Marshall plan.

Background

He studied Law and Thomistic philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven.

Career

After having worked for three years in the private sector, Jean-Charles Snoy in 1934 entered the service of the Ministry of Industry, the Middle Classes and Foreign Trade, newly created to deal with the economic crisis. In 1939, at 32, he was promoted to Secretary General of Economic Treaties and Negotiations.

During the Second World War, he first followed (in May 1940) the Belgian government in exile to the south of France, then, on instructions from the government, returned to Belgium in July 1940. In August 1940, he was removed from office by the German military occupation regime.

He joined, like many young Catholic intellectuals at the initiative of Henri Bauchau, the Service des volontaires du travail pour la Wallonie (SVTW). From the start, with the support from the Royal Palace and several officers and officer cadets, this right-wing - but not collaborationist - movement was marked by a strong attachment to the fatherland and to the monarchy; it was driven by the desire to "create a service allowing the youth to raise the country from its ruins and avoid sinking into idleness".

He would later form, with other senior officials dismissed like him, a group responsible for gathering economic and financial information for the Belgian government in exile in London, for the preparation of the post-war period. Upon the liberation of Brussels by the Allied troops in September 1944, he resumed his duties as Secretary General of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, a post he held until the end of 1959.

He played an important role in post-WW2 economic developments, including internationally. For example, he was involved in the implementation of the Marshall plan.

He was Secretary-General of the Belgian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Head of the Belgian Delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom at the Château of Val-Duchesse in 1956. He signed the Treaties of Rome for Belgium, together with Paul-Henri Spaak and Robert Rothschild in 1957. From 1982 until 1984, he was President of the European League for Economic Cooperation. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1960	28 May 1960	29 May 1960	Switzerland Bürgenstock	The 9th such meeting and the first one in Switzerland. 61 participants + 4 "in attendance". The meeting report contains a press statement, 4 sentences long.
Bilderberg/1961	21 April 1961	23 April 1961	Canada Quebec St-Castin	The 10th Bilderberg, the first in Canada and the 2nd outside Europe.
Bilderberg/1962	18 May 1962	20 May 1962	Sweden Saltsjöbaden	The 11th Bilderberg meeting and the first one in Sweden.
Bilderberg/1963	29 March 1963	31 March 1963	France Cannes Hotel Martinez	The 12th Bilderberg meeting and the second one in France.
Bilderberg/1964	20 March 1964	22 March 1964	US Virginia Williamsburg	A year after this meeting, the post of GATT/Director-General was set up, and given Eric Wyndham White, who attended the '64 meeting. Several subsequent holders have been Bilderberg insiders, only 2 are not known to have attended the group.
Bilderberg/1965	2 April 1965	4 April 1965	Italy Villa d'Este	The 14th Bilderberg meeting, held in Italy
Bilderberg/1966	25 March 1966	27 March 1966	Germany Wiesbaden Hotel Nassauer Hof	Top of the agenda of the 15th Bilderberg in Wiesbaden, Germany, was the restructuring of NATO. Since this discussion was held, all permanent holders of the position of NATO Secretary General have attended at least one Bilderberg conference prior to their appointment.
Bilderberg/1967	31 March 1967	2 April 1967	United Kingdom St John's College (Cambridge) UK	Possibly the only Bilderberg meeting held in a university college rather than a hotel (St. John's College, Cambridge)
Bilderberg/1968	26 April 1968	28 April 1968	Canada Mont Tremblant	The 17th Bilderberg and the 2nd in Canada
Bilderberg/1972	21 April 1972	23 April 1972	Belgium Hotel La Reserve Knokke	The 21st Bilderberg, 102 guests. It spawned the Trilateral Commission.
Bilderberg/1973	11 May 1973	13 May 1973	Sweden Saltsjöbaden	The meeting at which the 1973 oil crisis appears to have been planned.
Bilderberg/1974	19 April 1974	21 April 1974	France Hotel Mont d' Arbois Megève	The 23rd Bilderberg, held in France
Bilderberg/1975	25 April 1975	27 April 1975	Turkey Golden Dolphin Hotel Cesme	The 24th Bilderberg Meeting, 98 guests
Bilderberg/1977	22 April 1977	24 April 1977	United Kingdom Imperial Hotel Torquay	The 25th Bilderberg, held in Torquay, England.
Bilderberg/1978	21 April 1978	23 April 1978	US New Jersey Princeton University	The 26th Bilderberg, held in the US
Bilderberg/1980	18 April 1980	20 April 1980	Germany Aachen	The 28th Bilderberg, held in West Germany, unusually exposed by the Daily Mirror

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