Studies
Law and Political Sciences
Career
- 2011: Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD
- 2009: Minister of Foreign Affairs, then Prime Minister
- 2008: Prime Minister
- 2007: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Budget, Mobility, Institutional Reforms, and the North Sea
- 2004: Minister-President of the Flemish Government
- 2003: President of the CD&V
- 2001: CD&V faction leader in the Chamber
- 1992: Administrator at the European Union
- 1991: National CVP Secretary
- 1989: Deputy National Secretary of the CVP
- 1987-1989: Worked at the Court of Audit
- 1985: Parliamentary assistant to CVP Member of Parliament Paul Breyne and in the cabinet of Flemish Minister Paul Deprez