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'''Georges (George) Emile Léonard Theunis''' (28 February 1873 – 4 January 1966) was the [[Primeprime Ministerminister of Belgium]] from 16 December 1921 to 13 May 1925 and again from 20 November 1934 to 25 March 1935. He was governor of the [[National Bank of Belgium]] (NBB) from 1941 until 1944. He was [[Minister of Finance (Belgium)|Minister of Finance]] from 1920 to 1925.
 
Theunis received a military training and was also trained as an engineer. Georges Theunis started his career in the [[Empain group]], where he was an administrator and later the president of the board of [[SA Ateliers de Constructions Electriques de Charleroi|ACEC]]. During [[World War I]], he headed the ''Belgian Wartime Provisions Commission'' in London. After the war he was involved in the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919]] and served as the Belgian delegate to the Reparations Commission. From 1926 until 1927 he chaired the [[World Economic Conference|International Economic Conference]] in Geneva.