# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfons-verplaetse
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:57:01.054Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfons-verplaetse"
name: "Alfons Verplaetse"
slug: "alfons-verplaetse"
description: "Alfons \"Fons\" Remi Emiel, Viscount Verplaetse was a Belgian economist who served as Governor of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) from 1989 until 1999. He was one of the architects of the devaluation of the Belgian Frank in 1982 when he worked at the cabinet of Wilfried Martens in the government Martens V. As governor of the NBB, he prepared the entry of Belgium to the euro in 1999."
tagline: "Belgian economist (1930–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fons_verplaetse-1602852523.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-02-19"
deathDate: "2020-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.16
  momentum:             0.2906976744186046
  historical:           7.006372
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Alfons Verplaetse"
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    title: "الفونس ڤيرپلايتس"
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    title: "Alfons Verplaetse"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fons_Verplaetse"
    title: "Fons Verplaetse"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fons_Verplaetse"
    title: "Fons Verplaetse"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fons_Verplaetse"
    title: "Fons Verplaetse"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfons_Verplaetse"
    title: "Alfons Verplaetse"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump