Hilde Crevits
Vice Minister-President
of the Flemish Government and
Flemish Minister for Economy, Innovation, Work, Social economy and Agriculture
Assumed office
2 October 2019
Prime MinisterJan Jambon
Vice Minister-President
of the Flemish Government and
Flemish Minister of Education
In office
25 July 2014 – 2 October 2019
Prime MinisterGeert Bourgeois
Preceded byPascal Smet
Flemish Minister of Mobility and Public Works
In office
2009–2014
Prime MinisterKris Peeters
Preceded byKathleen Van Brempt (Mobility)
Succeeded byBen Weyts
Flemish Minister
of Public Works, Energy, the Environment and Nature
In office
2007–2009
Prime MinisterKris Peeters
Preceded byKris Peeters
Succeeded byFreya Van den Bossche (Energy)
Joke Schauvliege (Environment and Nature)
Personal details
Born
Hilde Urbanie Julia Crevits

(1967-06-28) 28 June 1967
Torhout, Belgium
Nationality Belgium
Political partyCD&V
Alma materGhent University
Occupationpolitician

Hilde Urbanie Julia Crevits (born 28 June 1967, in Torhout) is a Belgian politician from Flanders and member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party who is currently the Flemish minister of Economy, Innovation, Work, Social economy and Agriculture.

Crevits graduated from Ghent University as a Licentiate of Law in 1990 and subsequently became a lawyer.

Crevits served on the provincial council of West Flanders from 1999 to 2004, when she was elected to the Flemish Parliament in the 2004 regional elections. From 2000 to 2007 she served as an alderman in Torhout.

After the 2007 Belgian federal elections, in the cabinet reshuffle of 28 June 2007, Crevits took over the competences of Kris Peeters in the Flemish Government as Flemish minister of Public Works, Energy, the Environment and Nature. After the 2009 regional elections she became Flemish minister of Mobility and Public Works in the Peeters II Government.

After the 2014 elections, she became the Vice-Minister-President and Minister of Education in the Bourgeois Government. Since 2 October 2019 she is Vice Minister-President of the Flemish Government and Flemish Minister for Economy, Innovation, Work, Social economy and Agriculture in the Jambon Government.

Since 9 May 2016 she has also been mayor of Torhout.

Honours

References

  1. ↑ "Vlaams Parlement reikt onderscheidingen uit aan ministers en parlementairen". 10 December 2014.
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