Biography

Personal informations

  • Born in Namur on December 30, 1980
  • Legal cohabitant, two children
  • Lives in Buissonville (Rochefort)

Current mandates

  • Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy and Labor since October 1, 2020
  • Mayor of Rochefort since December 3, 2018 (in title since September 13, 2019)

Political background

  • Walloon Minister of Housing, Local Authorities and the City from September 13, 2019 to September 30, 2020
  • Walloon deputy and leader of the PS group in the Parliament of Wallonia from July 29, 2017 to September 12, 2019
  • Walloon Minister of Local Authorities from January 26 to July 28, 2017
  • Walloon deputy from May 25, 2014 to January 25, 2017
  • First alderman of the city of Rochefort from 2012 to 2018
  • Provincial deputy of the province of Namur in 2012
  • Provincial councilor of the province of Namur from 2006 to 2012
  • Municipal councilor of the city of Rochefort from 2006 to 2012
  • Parliamentary attaché to Maurice Bayenet, Deputy Chief of Staff to Minister Philippe Courard and Advisor to Minister Éliane Tillieux from 2004 to 2014

Diploma

  • Law degree from the Catholic University of Louvain in 2003