Francine Swiggers is a Belgian businesswoman, the Chairman of the Management Board of the

ARCO Group ARCO Group is a Belgian cooperative holding group, and part of the Catholic workers organisation Beweging.net formerly known as ACW. The group has more than 900,000 shareholders and a capital of 4.5 billion euro. ''Arcofin'' invests in the finan ...

since November 2007.

Biography

Francine Swiggers obtained a licence in Applied Economic Sciences and

Master in Business Administration A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a professional degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration; elective courses may allow further study in a particular a ...

at the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. Founded in 1425, it is the oldest university in Belgium and the oldest university in the Low Countries. In addition to its main camp ...

(

Leuven Leuven (, , ), also called Louvain (, , ), is the capital and largest City status in Belgium, city of the Provinces of Belgium, province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about east of Brussels. The municipalit ...

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). Francine Swiggers started her career at the BACOB Bank of the

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workers organisation (formerly known as ACW). Since 1995, she was in charge of the strategic planning. She is a member of the Management Board of

since 1997. In 2010–11, the group was hit hard by the Dexia crisis. In 2013, as ARCO was heading towards bankruptcy (96% of ARCO's assets had been invested in Dexia prior to its debacle), it appeared that Francine Swigglers still had sixteen remunerated mandates within the company. She is also Director of

Dexia Crédit Local Dexia N.V./S.A., or the Dexia Group, is a Franco-Belgian financial institution formed in 1996. At its peak in 2010, it had about 35,200 members of staff and a core shareholders' equity of €19.2 billion. In 2008, the bank entered severe ...

, VDK Spaarbank and the Belgian water treatment company Aquafin. In 2019 she filed a lawsuit against Arco investors that started a lawsuit against her in light of the Arco legal issues.

Sources

Francine Swiggers
(press release)

References

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