Johan Vande Lanotte
| Johan Vande Lanotte | |
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| Deputy Prime Minister | |
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In office 5 December 2011 – October 2014 |
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| Minister of Economy, Consumer affairs and North Sea | |
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In office 5 December 2011 – October 2014 |
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| Senator | |
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In office 28 June 2007 – 5 December 2011 |
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| Chairperson of SP.A | |
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In office 2005–2007 |
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| Preceded by | Steve Stevaert |
| Succeeded by | Caroline Gennez |
| Deputy Prime Minister | |
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In office 1994–2005 |
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| Minister of Budget | |
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In office 1999–2005 |
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| Minister of the Interior and of Civil Service Affairs | |
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In office 1994–1998 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
6 July 1955 Poperinge |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Political party | SP.A |
| Residence | Ostend |
| Alma mater |
University of Antwerp University of Brussels (VUB) |
| Occupation |
Politician Professor |
| Website | Official website |
Johan Cyrille Corneel Vande Lanotte (born 6 July 1955 in Poperinge) is a Belgian politician. He is a member of the SP.A, and became its party president on 15 October 2005. He handed down his leadership positions after the SP.A lost in the 2007 general election. Between 5 December 2011 and October 2014, he was Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Economy, Consumer affairs and North Sea in the Di Rupo I Government. With the formation of a new Centre-Right federal government, which excluded his party, Johan Vande Lanotte returned to local politics in October 2014 in Ostend, where he took up his position as alderman for the economy and tourism at Ostend City Council. Since August 2015 Vande Lanotte is the mayor of Ostend.
In 1978 he graduated magna cum laude in Political and Social Sciences, option: Sociology (Master's degree) from the University of Antwerp. In 1981 he added, again magna cum laude, a master in Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
He graduated as Doctor in Law at the Ghent University in 1986. The subject of his dissertation was decentralisation in the Belgian political context. It was awarded with the Prize of the Belgian Institute for Administrative Sciences.
During his doctorate, he studied at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (Lausanne) with the Von Calcken scholarship of the Council of Europe, at the Lille University (France), the Leiden University (Netherlands) and the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec.
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