Marcia De Wachter (born Wilrijk, 9 October 1953) is a Belgian economist who is a Director of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB).
[1] She graduated in Applied Economics at the University of Antwerp (Universitaire Faculteiten St.-Ignatius Antwerpen – UFSIA) in 1975.
She started her career at the NBB in April 1990, where she would be Spokesperson for the National Bank of Belgium until February 1994.
From January 1991 until October 1996, she acted as Department Advisor at the Cabinet of Alfons Verplaetse Governor of the NBB after which she became Secretary-General of the Bank from 1 November 1996 until 26 February 1999.
[5] De Wachter was the author of an influential 2007 report into the state of the Belgian economy,[6] of which she is an advocate of liberalisation,[7] especially in the ICT sector.