Pierre Chevalier (Belgian politician)
- Pierre Chevalier (Belgian politician)
Pierre Antoine Marie Chevalier (born October 8, 1952 in Bruges) is a Belgian politician and member of the VLD. He is a former Secretary of State in the Belgian Federal Government and was elected to the Belgian Senate in 2003 by the Dutch electoral college. He is also a freemason.Fact|date=February 2007 He studied Laws and Criminology at the University of Ghent before he became a lawyer. He became involved in politics early on, first as a Trotskyist, as a socialist later on, and since 1992 as a liberal. In October 2000, he was forced to resign as Secretary of State by Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, who is also a member of the VLD, after it became public that he had been named in a criminal investigation in Switzerland.
Political career
* 1985-2003: Member of the Chamber of Representatives
* 1988-1989: Secretary of State for Education
* 1989-1990: Secretary of State for Science Policy
* 1990-1992: Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Assembly of the WEU
* 1999-2000: Secretary of State for Foreign Trade
* since 2003: Directly-elected Senator for the Dutch electoral college
* presently Pierre Chevalier is also a special envoy for the OSCE
External links
* [http://www.pierrechevalier.be/ Pierre Chevalier] - (Only available in Dutch)
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