Pierre Chevalier (politician)

Pierre Antoine Marie Chevalier (born 8 October 1952) is a Belgian politician and member of the Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten (VLD). He is a former Secretary of State in the Belgian Federal Government and was elected to the Belgian Senate in 2003 by the Dutch electoral college. He is also a freemason. He studied Laws and Criminology at the University of Ghent before he became a lawyer. He became involved in politics early on, first as a Trotskyist, as a socialist later on, and since 1992 as a liberal. In October 2000, he was forced to resign as Secretary of State by Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, who is also a member of the VLD, after it became public that he had been named in a criminal investigation in Switzerland.

Political career

• 1985–2003: Member of the Chamber of Representatives
• 1988–1989: Secretary of State for Education
• 1989–1990: Secretary of State for Science Policy
• 1990–1992: Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Assembly of the Western European Union
• 1999–2000: Secretary of State for Foreign Trade
• Since 2003: Directly elected Senator for the Dutch electoral college
• Pierre Chevalier is a special envoy for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

External links

• Pierre Chevalier (only available in Dutch)