Bart Le Blanc, (born Lambertus Johannes Carolus Maria Le Blanc, 4 November 1946, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands) is an economist, with a career spanning the sectors of public finance, banking and asset management.
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Bart Le Blanc has lived in the UK since 1991. He is married to Gerardine van Lanschot.
After his education, Bart Le Blanc's first professional position was at the Office of the Prime Minister in the Netherlands, first as a junior adviser for social and economic affairs followed by an appointment as deputy secretary of the Council of Ministers.
In 1979 he was appointed deputy Director-General for the Civil Service at the Ministry of Interior. In 1980 this was followed by his appointment as Director-General of the Budget at the Ministry of Finance in the Netherlands.
In 1983 Bart Le Blanc moved to the financial sector taking up a Board position at F. van Lanschot Bankiers N.V., a private bank in the Netherlands, where he was appointed deputy chairman of the executive board in 1989. When at the end of the 1990s the Soviet system collapsed and the international community came together to provide (financial) support for the transition of the former Soviet states to market economies, he was asked to participate in the preparatory team for the establishment of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. He took up the role of the EBRD's first Secretary-General and member of the Executive Committee in April 1991. In 1994 Bart Le Blanc was appointed the Bank's Vice-President Finance (CFO). In September 1994 Bart Le Blanc left the E.B.R.D to join La Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) in Paris as Director of International Finance, and President of CDC's project financing vehicle CDC Projects.
In 2004 Bart Le Blanc moved from the financial sector into industry. He was appointed to the Executive Board and CFO of URENCO Ltd., the market leader in fuel for nuclear power stations through the enrichment of uranium. He retired from this position on the 1st of April 2011 handing over his responsibilities to Friso van Oranje who previously worked at McKinsey and Goldman Sachs.
Since 2003 Bart Le Blanc is a member of the Board of the Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP in the Netherlands, one of the largest pension funds in the world with a total asset base of euro 240 billion. He also serves on the ABP investment committee and its audit committee.
In April 2011 he joined Andreas Capital Sarl. in Luxembourg as senior partner. Andreas Capital is a new initiative of senior Finance professionals offering investment advisory services by adapting approaches and tools designed for institutional investors for services private clients such as a selected group of ultra high net worth individuals and family offices.
Bart Le Blanc graduated from the University of Tilburg (the Netherlands) with a Masters in Economic Sciences in 1973, this was followed by a PhD in Law from the University of Leyden (the Netherlands).