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Alexander De Croo
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Alexander De Croo is a Belgian politician, entrepreneur, and head of government. Born in Vilvoorde on November 3, 1975, he is a member of the political party Anders. He has served as Prime Minister of Belgium and held positions including Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and International Development. His affiliations have included the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation of Belgium, and the Digital Agenda.
De Croo was educated at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Northwestern University. He speaks Dutch, English, and French, with Dutch as his native language. His father is Herman De Croo. He is the author of works including *De eeuw van de vrouw* and *Age of Women*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- De eeuw van de vrouw
- Age of Women
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,030x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,543x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,455x
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,393x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,516x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Relations with Russia are currently extremely unstable and uncertain. If things go awry for our neighbors, then that is also a problem for us. It also has a direct impact on our country and on Europe as a whole, in the form of for example refugee numbers and energy prices. There is a need to ease tensions and restore stability. An open conflict is in nobody's interest.”
- “Freedom of expression is one of the foundations of our society. Everyone is free to express their opinion. But our society will never accept indiscriminate violence, and even less towards our police forces.”
- “We need sanctions that bite (Russia).”
- “Our European skies are open skies. They're open for those who connect people, not for those who seek to brutally aggress.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alexander
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Place of birth
- Vilvoorde
- Father
- Herman De Croo
- Occupation
- politician
- Educated at
- Northwestern University
- Political party
- Anders
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- Dutch
- Official website
- decroo.wilmes-ii.archive.belgium.be/en/biography
- Image
- Alexander De Croo on 5 January 2024 (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Alexander De Croo
- date of birth
- 1975-11-03
- name in native language
- Alexander De Croo
- social media followers
- 232548
- P10632
- Alexander De Croo
- P11012
- Fallablemma castaneum
- honorific prefix
- Excellency
- affiliation string
- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and International Development of Belgium
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexander De Croo ( Dutch: [aːlɛkˈsɑndər də ˈkroː]; born 3 November 1975) is a Belgian politician and businessman who serves as Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He was Prime Minister of Belgium from 2020 to 2025. Previously from 2012 to 2020, De Croo served as deputy prime minister in the governments of Elio Di Rupo, Charles Michel, and Sophie Wilmès. During his tenure as deputy prime minister he served as the Minister of Pensions from 2012 to 2014, as Minister of Development Cooperation from 2014 to 2020, and as Minister of Finance from 2018 to 2020. On 1 October 2020, over a year after the 2019 federal elections, the De Croo Government was formed to replace Wilmès' minority government, with De Croo as prime minister.
De Croo was born in Vilvoorde and studied business engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel before attaining an MBA at Northwestern University in the United States. He worked for Boston Consulting Group before starting his own company, Darts-ip, in 2006. De Croo became involved with the Belgian political party Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten (Open VLD), of which he was chairman from 2009 to 2012.
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