Baron Jean Godeaux (3 July 1922 – 27 April 2009) was a Belgian economist, civil servant and former governor of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) from 1982 until 1989.
Jean Godeaux studied both law and economics, and started his career in 1947 at the NBB in the Foreign Affairs department.
When he returned to Brussels in 1955, he was appointed as a director of the Banque Lambert, where he subsequently became co-administrator, and later chairman of the board of the bank.
In 1988, Godeaux became president of the Committee of Governors of the Central Banks of the Member States of the EEC, and of the European Monetary Cooperation Fund.
He left the NBB in 1990, after which he joined the board of the Société Générale de Belgique, where he stayed until 1996.