Albert-Édouard Janssen
Albert-Édouard Janssen was a Belgian politician, banker and professor born in Antwerp, Belgium on 1 April 1883 and died in Valduc Castle in Hamme-Mille, Belgium on 29 March 1966. Biography Albert Edward studied law and political and diplomatic sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven. In 1911, he was one of the first to graduate with a doctorate from the School of Political Sciences. He then became a teacher at this school until 1919 where he taught at the Faculty of Law. In 1907, he was selected for an internship with Henri Carton de Wiart and was registered in 1910 in the Bar Association. He did not continue his career at the bar, however, as he returned to the National Bank of Belgium. He participated in the work of the Hague Conference. In 1914, he was appointed Secretary of the Bank. During the war, he was associated with the resistance to occupying forces, and social policy in helping small pensioners and the popular classes. In 1919 he was appointed director of the National Bank of Belgium and stayed until 1925. He participated in several commissions, including the Reparation Commission in Paris, France. In 1924, he was selected to represent Belgium