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Paul Henri Maria, Count Buysse, CMG, CBE (17 March 1945 – 30 December 2023) was a Belgian businessman. He was the main author of the Belgian Code for
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(''Code Buysse'').


Early life and education

Paul Buysse was born in
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on 17 March 1945. He held a degree in Business Management from the ''Hoger Antwerps Marketing Instituut in Publiciteit, Marketing and PR''. Buysse graduated from the
Tenneco Tenneco, Inc. (formerly Tenneco Automotive and originally Tennessee Gas Transmission Company) is an American automotive components original equipment manufacturer and an aftermarket ride control and emissions products manufacturer. It is a ''F ...
Advanced Management Programme ( Mont Pelerin, Switzerland).


Career

Buysse started his career in 1966 at
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, after which he joined
British Leyland British Leyland was a British automotive engineering and manufacturing Conglomerate (company), conglomerate formed in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC), following the merger of Leyland Motors and British Motor Holdings. It wa ...
Belgium in 1976. In 1980 Buysse became executive director of Tenneco Belgium and managing director of J.I. Case Benelux and subsequently in 1984 he became general manager Europe North – J.I. Case, International Harvester and Poclain. In 1988, he joined
BTR plc BTR plc was a British Multinational Corporation, multinational industrial Conglomerate (company), conglomerate company. It was headquartered in London, England. The company was originally founded in 1924 as the British Goodrich Rubber Co. Ltd ...
as group managing director of Hansen Transmissions International and was appointed in 1989 as group chief executive BTR Automotive and Engineering Group. In 1991 Paul Buysse was appointed group chief executive BTR Engineering and Dunlop Overseas and became executive director BTR plc (
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) in 1992. In 1998 he became CEO of Vickers plc (London), after which in 2000 he joined the Bekaert Group as chairman of the board, which he remained until May 2014. In addition, Count Buysse was chairman of the College of Censors of the
National Bank of Belgium The National Bank of Belgium (NBB; , NBB; , BNB; , BNB) is the National central bank (Eurosystem), national central bank for Belgium within the Eurosystem. It was the Belgian central bank from 1850 until 1998, established by law of and issuin ...
, vice-chairman of th
Royal Higher Institute for Defence
(RHID), chairman of Immobel, founder-president of NEA (a socio-economic reflection centre), member of the executive committee of the
Federation of Belgian Enterprises The Federation of Enterprises in Belgium (, VBO, , FEB) is the only Belgian non-profit organization representing companies in all three regions of Belgium. Its members, the different Belgian sectorial employers' organizations, represent companie ...
(FEB), member of the high council of the
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, member of the Belgian Council of
INSEAD INSEAD ( ; French: ''Institut européen d'administration des affaires'') is a non-profit business school with locations in Europe (Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE) and North America (San Francisco, USA ...
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, member of the board of directors VEV (Flemish employers federation), chairman of FBNet Belgium ( Family Business Network Belgium).


Death

Buysse died on 30 December 2023, at the age of 78.


Honours


National honours

* Created the noble title "Knight", for life, by Royal Decree in 1994 of King Albert. * Raised in the hereditary nobility with the title "Baron", for himself, by Royal decree in 1999. * Created Count, for himself and for his descendants, by Royal Decree of 2 April 2014, by King
Philippe of Belgium Philippe (born 15 April 1960) is King of the Belgians. He is the eldest child of King Albert II and Queen Paola. He succeeded his father upon the former's abdication for health reasons on 21 July 2013. He married Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz in 1 ...
. * Grand Officer in the
Order of Leopold II The Order of Leopold II is an order of Belgium and is named in honor of King Leopold II. The decoration was established on 24 August 1900 by Leopold II as Sovereign of the Congo Free State and was in 1908, upon Congo being handed over to Belgiu ...
by Royal decree of 2005.


Others

* Commander of the
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, by Royal Decree. * Companion of the
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. * Officer of the
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. * Officer of the
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.Adelbrieven verleend door Z.M. Albert II, Koning der Belgen, 1993–2000.- pag. 50


References


Sources


Code Buysse

Third Belgo-British Conference : Opening speech by Minister Rik Daems at the Third Belgo-British conference
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