Kathleen Van Brempt
| Kathleen Van Brempt | |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 2009 |
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18 November 1969 Wilrijk, Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Occupation | politician |
Kathleen Van Brempt (pronounced [kɑtˈleːn vɑn ˈbrɛmpt]; born 18 November 1969 in Wilrijk), is a Belgian social-democratic politician and member of the SP-A. She currently serves as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) as part of the Party of European Socialists and is leader of the local branch of her party in Antwerp.
Van Brempt studied at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven where she became licentiate in sociology in 1991.
After having worked for the SP-A in capacity of a researcher and as political secretary to Louis Tobback, in 1999 Van Brempt was appointed deputy chief of staff to the minister of employment Renaat Landuyt.
In her first term as Member of the European Parliament from 6 January 2000 to 1 October 2003, Van Brempt served on the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2000-2002) and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-2003).
On 1 October 2003, Van Brempt resigned from the European Parliament to become State Secretary for Labor organization and Welfare in the working place in the second Belgian federal government headed by Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt. During the regional elections of 2004, Van Brempt was elected to the Flemish Parliament and she became Minister for Mobility, Social Economy and Equal Opportunities in the Flemish government.
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