 Reynders served as Minister of Finance from 1999 to 2011; in 2002, he chaired the G-10 which is the meeting of the main creditor states (Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States).Reynders became Deputy Prime Minister in 2004, in the government of Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt.He was the chairman of the Mouvement Réformateur from 2004 to 2011.