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Georges Jacobs has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Delhaize Group since January 1, 2005. He started his career as an economist with the IMF in Washington in 1966. He joined the UCB Group (a pharmaceutical and chemical group based in Belgium) in 1970 and has been Chairman of its Executive Committee from 1987 until the end of 2004. Mr. Jacobs is Chairman of the Board of Directors of UCB and also serves on the Board of Directors of Belgacom, Bekaert and SN Brussels Airlines. He has been President of UNICE (Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe) between 1998 and 2003. He is member of the Management Committee and Honorary Chairman of the Federation of Belgian Companies. Mr. Jacobs is a Doctor at Laws (UCL, Belgium), holds a Master's degree in Economic Sciences (UCL, Belgium), and a Master's degree in Economics (University of California, Berkeley, US). | 