Jan Smets

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Person.png Jan Smets WikidataRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(central banker)
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Born2 January 1951
Ghent, Belgium
NationalityBelgian
Alma materGhent University

Employment.png Governor of the National Bank of Belgium

In office
11 March 2015 - January 2019
DeputyPierre Wunsch
Preceded byLuc Coene
Succeeded byPierre Wunsch

Jan Smets is a Belgian central banker who was Governor of the National Bank of Belgium.

Bitcoin

As Governor of the National Bank of Belgium Jan Smets "said people should be wary of Bitcoin – the decentralized digital currency – and that it actually shouldn’t be treated as a currency."[1]

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