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Bernard Clerfayt

Bernard Clerfayt

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)
Contact:
33, Boulevard du Roi Albert II
1030 Brussels
+32 (0)2 576 8375
cabinet.clerfayt@ckfin.minfin.be

Duties and tasks

  •  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

  • Master of Economic Sciences 

     

  • Date of birth: 30 December 1961
  • Place of birth: Uccle
  • Mother tongue: French
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