Bernard Clerfayt
Secretary of State for Modernisation of the Federal Public Service Finance, Environmental Taxation and the Fight against Fiscal Fraud, assistant to the Minister for Finance
- Level of government:
- Federal government
- Party:
- Democratic Front of Francophones (FDF) (faction of MR)
33, Boulevard du Roi Albert II
1030 Brussels
+32 (0)2 576 8375
cabinet.clerfayt@ckfin.minfin.be
Duties and tasks
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Federal Public Service Finance:
- Modernisation of the Federal Public Service Finance
- Environmental taxation
- Fight against Fiscal Fraud
Political career
- Elected to the Council of the Brussels Region (1989)
- Vice President of the Brussels Regional Parliament (1994 -1995)
- Secretary of the Brussels Regional Parliament (1995 -1997)
- Head of Group to the Assembly of the French Community Commission (1995 -1999)
- Deputy mayor of Schaerbeek in charge of town planning, environment, communal property, renovation and heritage (1995 - 2000)
- Secretary of the Brussels Regional Parliament (1999 - 2000)
- Burgermeister of Schaerbeek and Vice President of the FDF (MR) (since 2001)
- Federal deputy (2007 - March 2008)
- Secretary of State for Finance (March 2008 - 30 December 2008)
- Secretary of State for Modernisation of the Federal Public Service Finance, Environmental Taxation and the Fight against Fiscal Fraud, assistant to the Minister for Finance (since December 2008)
Professional career
- Research assistant at the Catholic University of Leuven Centre of Economic Studies (from 1984 to 1986)
- Intern at the International Monetary Fund
- Lecturer in macroeconomics and microeconomics at the Catholic University of Louvain, the Catholic University of Mons and the University Faculties of Lille (1986-1993)
Studies
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Master of Economic Sciences
- Date of birth: 30 December 1961
- Place of birth: Uccle
- Mother tongue: French