Education
He studied law at the University of Liège.
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He studied law at the University of Liège.
He was Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium and Minister for Finance and Institutional Reforms in the Van Rompuy I Government, which took office on 30 December 2008. Since 2011 he has been Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was born in Liège as the youngest in a family of three children.
He served as Chairman of the NMBS / SNCB from 1986 to 1991.
He served as Minister of Finance from 1999 to 2011 and became Deputy Prime Minister in 2004. He was the chairman of the Mouvement Réformateur from 2004 to 2011.
Reynders led the Magnetic Resonance to a victory in the 2007 election, with the Magnetic Resonance becoming the largest Francophone party of Belgium. The Belgian King appointed Reynders as informateur, id est (that is) to start off the informal coalition talks for a new federal government.
Stalemate followed the 2010 general election.
The King appointed a succession of people to negotiate a coalition from June 2010 onwards, but none succeeded in the task of forming a new government during the following seven months. Reynders was appointed informateur by the King on 2 February 2011. He reported on 16 February 2011, and his brief was extended through 1 March 2011.