Axel Miller

Axel Miller (born 20 February 1965, Uccle) is a Belgian businessman. From January 2006 to September 2008, he was chief executive officer and chairman of the management board of Dexia S.A. Since 2009, he is partner of Petercam, a Belgian financial group, active in private banking, institutional asset management and corporate finance.

Early life Miller's mother was a chemist and his father a biochemist. He spent his childhood between France, England, and Belgium.

In 1987, Miller obtained a master's degree in Law from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels.

He joined the Dexia Group in 2001 as general counsel. Upon his arrival, he was in charge of merging the activities of three banks: Dexia Bank, Bacob Bank and Paribas Bank Belgium. In January 2002, he became a member of the management board of Dexia Bank, and in January 2003 he became chairman of the management board of Dexia Bank and head of personal financial services at group level. Miller is vice-president of the Belgian Banking Association and a member of the board of directors of Febelfin. He is also a director of several Dexia Group companies, of , of Crédit du Nord and of Carmeuse Holding.

In 2006, Miller became the CEO of Dexia. In June 2006, he led the acquisition of Turkish DenizBank. As head of Dexia, he also had to deal with the Lernout & Hauspie affair.

Bailout On 30 September 2008 the Belgian, French and Luxembourg governments said they would put in 6.4bn euros ($9bn; £5bn) into keep Dexia afloat. On the same day at 10:02am the BBC News Channel broke news which had come from the news provider AFP "Dexia Chairman and the Chief Executive resign after bailout". This was later confirmed live on the BBC News Channel from Brussels at 10:24am. Miller and Pierre Richard were chairman and chief executive respectively.

A Belgian parlemential commission concluded after a deep investigation that the former CEO of Dexia failed to do his job and was responsible for the bailout of Dexia.

Personal life Miller is divorced from Catherine Duhen. They have four children together. He’s now married with Julie Dupont.