Annemie Turtelboom | |
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Belgian Member of the European Court of Auditors | |
In office 1 May 2018 –30 April 2024 | |
President | Tony Murphy |
Preceded by | Karel Pinxten |
Flemish Minister of Finance and Energy | |
In office 25 July 2014 –29 April 2016 | |
Prime Minister | Geert Bourgeois |
Preceded by | Philippe Muyters (Budget) Freya Van Den Bossche (Energy) |
Succeeded by | Bart Tommelein |
Minister of Justice | |
In office 6 December 2011 –25 July 2014 | |
Prime Minister | Elio Di Rupo |
Preceded by | Stefaan De Clerck |
Succeeded by | Maggie De Block |
Minister of the Interior | |
In office 17 July 2009 –6 December 2011 | |
Prime Minister | Herman Van Rompuy Yves Leterme |
Preceded by | Guido De Padt |
Succeeded by | Joëlle Milquet |
Personal details | |
Born | Ninove,Belgium | 22 November 1967
Political party | Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats |
Annemie Turtelboom (born 22 November 1967) is a former Belgian minister,who is currently serving as the Belgian Member of The European Court of Auditors since 2018.
Annemie Turtelboom graduated from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1993 with an MA in economics,having previously obtained a Teaching Certificate from the Guardini Institute in Antwerp in 1988. [1] She proceeded to teach economics at KU Leuven for ten years where she was appointed head teacher. Her lectures ranged from primarily marketing and statistics,to banking and insurance. [2] [3]
In 2003,Annemie entered the Belgian Federal Parliament as a member of Open VLD. [4] By 2008,she was appointed as Minister of Migration and Asylum Policy in the Leterme I Government. She became Belgium's minister of the interior in the minister of the interior on 17 July 2009, [5] and retained that office in the Leterme II Government,which took office on 24 November 2009. [6] In 2011,Turtelboom served as the Minister of Justice - the first woman to do so in Belgian history [7] - following the appointment of Elio Di Rupo as new Belgian Prime Minister (2011-2014). From 25 July 2014,Turtelboom served as Flemish minister of Finance,Budget and Energy in the Bourgeois Government (2014-2019). On 29 April 2016,she resigned from her function as minister in the Flemish government, [8] in order to take up the position of Belgian member of the European Court of Auditors. [9]
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