Alexander De Croo
| Alexander De Croo | |
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| Minister of Development Cooperation | |
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Assumed office 11 October 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Charles Michel |
| Preceded by | Jean-Pascal Labille |
| Minister of Pensions | |
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In office 22 October 2012 – 11 October 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Elio Di Rupo |
| Preceded by | Vincent Van Quickenborne |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Bacquelaine |
| Leader of the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats | |
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In office 12 December 2009 – 22 October 2012 |
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| Deputy |
Vincent Van Quickenborne Patricia Ceysens |
| Preceded by | Guy Verhofstadt (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Guy Verhofstadt (Acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
3 November 1975 Vilvoorde, Belgium |
| Political party | Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats |
| Alma mater |
Free University of Brussels, Dutch Northwestern University |
| Website | Personal site |
Alexander De Croo (born 3 November 1975) is a Flemish liberal politician, economist and businessman. He currently holds the office of Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium and Minister of Development Cooperation, Digital Agenda, Telecom and Postal Services. From 2009 until 2012, he was party leader of (Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Open VLD).
Alexander De Croo is the son of former Belgian minister and president of the Chamber of Representatives Herman De Croo. In 1998, he graduated in Business Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He attended Northwestern University in Chicago in 2002 to complete an MBA at the Kellogg School of Management.
Before his political career, Alexander De Croo became a project leader of The Boston Consulting Group in 1999. Starting from 2006, he founded a new company called Darts-ip specialized in providing service to Intellectual Property professionals.
In 2009, he participated for the first time in politics with the 2009 European elections. He received 47.779 preference votes while being positioned tenth on the party ballot. During the elections for the Senate in 2010, he obtained 301.917 preference votes, the third most in the Dutch-speaking constituency.
On 26 October 2009, he became a candidate for the presidency of his political party Open VLD to succeed the transitional president Guy Verhofstadt. He chose Vincent Van Quickenborne and Patricia Ceysens as his running mates to compete against Marino Keulen and Gwendolyn Rutten. On 12 December 2009, he was elected president in the second round with 11.676 votes. Marino Keulen received 9.614 votes. His election is remarkable because he does not have any previous experience practicing a political mandate.
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