Melchior Wathelet
State Secretary for the Budget, Migration and Asylum Policy, Family Policy and Federal Cultural Institutions
- Level of competence:
- Federal government
- Party:
- cdH
Wetstraat 51
1040 Brussels
02 790 57 11
info@wathelet.fed.be
Duties and tasks
- Budget: Federal Public Service Budget and Management Audit
- Immigration and Asylum policy:Federal Public Service Interior (Department of Alien Affairs)
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Responsibility for:
- Department of Alien Affairs
- Commissioner-General for refugees and stateless persons
- Council for Alien Disputes
- Family policy (the remit for child allowance for employees belongs to the Minister for Social Affairs and the remit for child allowance for the self-employed belongs to the Minister for the Self-Employed
- Federal cultural institutions
Political career
- Member of Federal Parliament (since 18 May 2003)
- Leader of the CDH in the Chamber of Representatives (September 2004 – March 2008)
- National vice-chairman of the CDH since 2004
- Member of Verviers City Council (since 2006)
- State Secretary for the Budget, Immigration and Asylum Policy and Family Policy (since 21 March 2008)
Professional career
- Lawyer at the Bar of Liège with the firm MATRAY, MATRAY & HALLET (March 2002 – March 2008)
- Lecturer at IHECS (Institute of Higher Studies in Social Communication)
Studies
- Bachelor: Law at the FUNDP in Namur (September 1995 – June 1997)
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Masters: Law at
- Masters: Master’s degree in European Law from Southampton University (September 2000 – July 2001)
- Date of birth: 30 September 1977
- Place of birth: Verviers
- Mother language: French