Prime Minister Geert Bourgeois Prime Minister Kris Peeters Preceded by Pascal Smet Name Hilde Crevits | Prime Minister Kris Peeters Role Politician Succeeded by Ben Weyts Education Ghent University | |
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Preceded by Kathleen Van Brempt (Mobility) Children Bram Devolder, Soetkin Devolder Similar People Kris Peeters, Joke Schauvliege, Geert Bourgeois, Annemie Turtelboom | ||
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Hilde Urbanie Julia Crevits (born in Torhout, 28 June 1967) is a Flemish politician and member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party who is currently the Flemish minister of Education.
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Crevits graduated from Ghent University as a Licentiate of Law in 1990 and subsequently became a lawyer.
Crevits served on the provincial council of West Flanders from 1999 to 2004, when she was elected to the Flemish Parliament in the 2004 regional elections. From 2000 to 2007 she served as an alderman in Torhout.
After the 2007 Belgian federal elections, in the cabinet reshuffle of 28 June 2007, Crevits took over the competences of Kris Peeters in the Flemish Government as Flemish minister of Public Works, Energy, the Environment and Nature. After the 2009 regional elections she became Flemish minister of Mobility and Public Works in the Peeters II Government.
After the 2014 elections, she became the Vice-Minister-President and Minister of Education in the Bourgeois Government.
Since 9 May 2016 she has also been mayor of Torhout.
She supported anti-antisemitism when supporting a local placing in the International Holocaust Cartoon Competition.