Belgium

Ms. Els Demol MP

Submitted by Jessica on 5 May, 2011 - 12:14

Belgium

Parliament:

Belgian House of Representatives

Political Party:

Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (New-Flemish Alliance, N-VA)

Els Demol was elected to the Belgian House of Representatives on June 13, 2010. Prior to this, she served as the Councillor of Herent from 2001-2006. She is currently the Vice President of the Advisory Committee for Social Emancipation. Ms. Demol is also on the Committee for Foreign Affairs and is a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Dallemagne George

Submitted by Anonymous on 24 February, 2011 - 17:37

Belgium

Parliament:

Belgian House of Representatives

Political Party:

Centre Démocrate Humaniste

Georges Dallemagne has spent much of his life working for humanitarian aid and public health programmes for the European Commission (in Rwanda, Balkans, Angola) and intervening in crisis situations in far-flung areas of the world hit by war, earthquakes and emergency refugee situations. As director of Handicap International, he lobbied to get the EU to agree to ban anti-personnel mines, leading to the signing of a global agreement, the Ottawa or Mine-Ban Treaty in 1997.

Mr. Dirk Van der Maelen

Submitted by Anonymous on 9 August, 2010 - 13:07

Belgium

Parliament:

Belgian Chamber of Representatives

Political Party:

The Socialist Party (SPA)

Dirk Van der Maelen is a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, a lower house of the Belgian Federal Parliament. He is a strong advocate of fairer taxation laws and international justice.

Mr. Van der Maelen was fist elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 1989. From 1999 to 2007 he was the leader of the SPA's fraction there. Since October 2007, Mr Van Der Maelen has been the Vice Chairman of the SPA.

Mr. Xavier Baeselen MP

Submitted by Anonymous on 17 April, 2009 - 12:01

Belgium

Parliament:

Belgian Federal Parliament

Political Party:

Liberal Deputy (MR)

Mr. Baeselen has been the Liberal Deputy (MR) from Bruxelles-Hal-Vilvorde’s county since 20th March 2008, replacing Mr. Bernard Clerfayt, Secretary of State. Mr. Baeselen was born in Brussels in 1972 and graduated with a degree in criminology. He is a high school and university Associate Professor and the Political Secretary for the MR group in the House of Representatives. Mr. Baeselen is also currently the Finance, Population and Information Technology Councillor of Watermael-Boitsfort.

Mr. François-Xavier de Donnea MP

Submitted by Anonymous on 15 April, 2009 - 09:26

Belgium

Parliament:

Belgian House of Representatives

Political Party:

Mouvement Réformateur

Mr. de Donnea is currently Minister of State and Member of the Belgian House of Representatives. He serves as chair or member of several intergovernmental delegations and institutes and is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Louvain. Throughout his career, Mr. de Donnea has served in a variety of roles in public service and academia—as Secretary of State for Development Cooperation, Minister of Defence, Member of the Belgian Parliament, Member of the European Parliament, Mayor of Brussels, and Professor of economics and public management at the University of Louvain.

Ms. Juliette Boulet MP

Submitted by Anonymous on 2 October, 2008 - 15:46

Belgium

Parliament:

Belgian Federal Parliament

Political Party:

Green Party

Ms. Boulet is one of the youngest members of the Belgian Federal Parliament and an active member of the Federation of Young European Greens. Alongside her environmental engagement, Ms. Boulet also has a strong interest in the issues of refugees and migration. Passionate about the Middle-East, Ms. Boulet has been particularly engaged in Palestine and Afghanistan.

Mr. Herman De Croo MP

Submitted by Anonymous on 2 October, 2008 - 15:45

Belgium

Parliament:

Belgian Parliament

Political Party:

Flemish Liberal Party

Mr. De Croo was first elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 1968 for the PVV-PLP. He has since served in various governments as minister of Transport and Foreign Trade; minister of Transport, Postal Services, Telegraphy and Telephony; minister of Education and minister of Postal Services, Telegraphy, Telephony and Pensions. From 1999 till July 2007 Mr. De Croo was the president of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, the owner house of the Belgian Federal Parliament. He is the current mayor of Brakel.

Mr. Wouter De Vriendt MP

Submitted by Anonymous on 2 October, 2008 - 15:44

Belgium

Parliament:

Belgian Federal Parliament

Political Party:

Green Party

Mr. De Vriendt is a Flemish politician and member of the "Groen!" party - a Flemish, progressive and green political party, whose sister party is the Francophone Ecolo party. Mr. De Vriendt holds graduate degrees in political science and European Political and International Cooperation. From 2002-2005, Mr. De Vriendt worked as a policy offer for the Groen! party. He later worked as a research worker and an attaché in the Flemish parliament. He lives in Oostende, where he also a municipality Council member.

Mr. Johan Van Hecke

Submitted by Anonymous on 2 October, 2008 - 15:10

Belgium

Mr. Van Hecke is a Belgian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for Flanders with the Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. He was a member of the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade, a member of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, and was a substitute for the Delegation for relations with South Africa.

Ms. Hilde Vautmans MP

Submitted by Anonymous on 2 October, 2008 - 15:07

Belgium

Parliament:

Belgian Federal Parliament

Political Party:

Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten

Ms. Vautmans is a Flemish liberal politician from the Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten party. Ms. Vautmans has graduate degrees from the Catholic University of Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) in sociology and criminology. She has particular interests in foreign affairs, human rights, health care, and development aid. Since 2006 Ms. Vautmans has been the president of the municipality Council in Hasselt.