Pieter De Crem
Minister for Defence
- Level of government:
- Federal government
- Party:
- CD&V
Rue Lambermont 8
1000 Brussels
02 550 28 11
kabinet@mod.mil.be
Duties and tasks
- Minister for Defence
- War Victims
Political career
- Chairman of the Youth CVP, Ghent-Eeklo, 1989-1995
- Attaché to the cabinet of Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, 1989-1992
- Attaché to the cabinet of Minister for National Defence Leo Delcroix, 1992-1993
- Burgermeister of Aalter since 1995, re-elected in 2000 and 2006
- CVP deputy for Ghent-Eeklo, 1995, re-elected in 1999
- CD&V deputy for East Flanders, 2003, re-elected in 2007
- Chairman of the CD&V Group in the Chamber of Representatives from 31 May 2003 to 21 December 2007
- Chairman of the Committee for the Interior from 10 June 2007 to 21 December 2007
- Member of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
- Minister for National Defence since 21 December 2007
- Officer of the Order of Leopold
Professional career
- Groupe Roularta Media, 1987-1989
- Advisor « De fabrieken van de Gebroeders De Beukelaar », 1993-1994
Studies
- Degree in Romanic Philology, Catholic University of Louvain
- Degree in European and International Law, Free University of Brussels
- Language proficiency: Pieter De Crem is a Dutch native speaker. He is fluent in French, English, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese and has a basic knowledge of Russian.
- Date of birth: 22 July 1962
- Place of birth: Aalter
- Mother tongue: Dutch