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Alexander De Croo
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Alexander De Croo was the Prime Minister of Belgium, serving in that role from 2020 to 2025. As the head of Belgium's government during this five-year period, he was responsible for leading the country's executive branch and addressing major national issues.
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- 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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- Alexander De Croo
- date of birth
- 1975-11-03
- name in native language
- Alexander De Croo
- social media followers
- 232548
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- 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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