Jacques Groothaert

Baron Jacques Groothaert (1922–2009) was a Belgian diplomat and entrepreneur. He was honorary chairman of the company SA Belge de Constructions Aeronautiques (SABCA), former Ambassador for Belgium to Mexico and China, and chairman of the Generale de Banque. He was a member of the Coudenberg group, a Belgian federalist think tank. In 1984 he founded, together with Lucien Le Lièvre, the American European Community Association (AECA) in Belgium.