Daniel Janssen

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Daniel Janssen (b.Brussels 15 April 1936) is a Belgian businessman. He is a son of Charles-Emmanuel Janssen, liberal deputy of Walloon Brabant, and Maya Boël, daughter of the Vice-president of the Senate Pol Boël. He married Thérèse Bracht, and together they have three children, Charles-Antoine Janssen (b.1971), Nicolas Janssen (b.1974), and Edouard Janssen (b.1978).

He starts his school at the Hamaïde School of Brussels (1940 - 1945), continues at the Athenaeum Robert Catteau of Brussels ((1945 to 1953). From 1953 until 1958, he studies at the polytechnic faculty of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) where he graduates as civil engineer in nuclear physics. From 1959 until 1960, he works at the Cabinet of Commisioner De Groote at Euratom, after which he resumes his studies at Harvard Business School in the United States from 1960 to 1962, where he obtains an MBA.

From 1962 to 1984 he worked at the Union Chimique Belge as an engineer, then Director of R&D, and then President of the Executive Committee from 1975 to 1984. Since then, he was Vice-President of the Board of Directors. In May 2006 he retired.