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Hilde Crevits

Belgian politician

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Belgian politician

Field	Value
name	Hilde Crevits
image	Hilde Crevits 2024 (cropped).jpg
image_size	200px
office	Vice Minister-President
of the Flemish Government and
Flemish Minister for Economy, Innovation, Work, Social economy and Agriculture
term_start	2 October 2019
primeminister	Jan Jambon
office1	Vice Minister-President
of the Flemish Government and
Flemish Minister of Education
term_start1	25 July 2014
term_end1	2 October 2019
predecessor1	Pascal Smet
primeminister1	Geert Bourgeois
office2	Flemish Minister of Mobility and Public Works
term_start2	2009
term_end2	2014
predecessor2	Kathleen Van Brempt (Mobility)
successor2	Ben Weyts
primeminister2	Kris Peeters
office3	Flemish Minister
of Public Works, Energy, the Environment and Nature
term_start3	2007
term_end3	2009
predecessor3	Kris Peeters
successor3	Freya Van den Bossche (Energy)
Joke Schauvliege (Environment and Nature)
primeminister3	Kris Peeters
birth_name	Hilde Urbanie Julia Crevits
birth_date
birth_place	Torhout, Belgium
death_date
party	CD&V
alma_mater	Ghent University
nationality
occupation	politician

of the Flemish Government and Flemish Minister for Economy, Innovation, Work, Social economy and Agriculture of the Flemish Government and Flemish Minister of Education of Public Works, Energy, the Environment and Nature Joke Schauvliege (Environment and Nature)

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

2014: commander in the Order of Leopold.

References

(10 December 2014). "Vlaams Parlement reikt onderscheidingen uit aan ministers en parlementairen".

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