Tinne Van der Straeten

Tinne Van der Straeten
Tinne Van der Straeten
Minister of Energy
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 October 2020
Monarch	Philippe
Prime Minister	Alexander De Croo
Preceded by	Marie-Christine Marghem
Member of the Chamber of Representatives
	In office; 20 June 2019 – 1 October 2020
Constituency	Brussels
	In office; 28 June 2007 – 7 May 2010
Constituency	Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde
Personal details
Born	1 April 1978; Malle, Belgium
Political party	Groen
Residence(s)	Koekelberg, Belgium
Alma mater	Ghent University; Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Occupation	Politician; activist;
Website	Official website

Tinne Van der Straeten (born 1 April 1978) is a Belgian politician and activist who has been serving as Minister of Energy in the De Croo Government since October 2020. She is a member of the party Groen. She previously served in the Chamber of Representatives for Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde from 2007 to 2010 and later for Brussels from 2019 until 2020, when she resigned to become energy minister.

Biography

In 2000, Van der Straeten obtained a degree in African Studies at the Ghent University. Subsequently, she started working as a researcher at Université catholique de Louvain. After this, she went to KU Leuven, where she investigated labour discrimination. After her studies, she joined Agalev and she was active in Malle. In 2008, she obtained a law degree at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

In the 2007 elections, Van der Straeten was elected a representative in the Belgian federal parliament for the first time. Three years later, in the 2010 elections, she wasn't re-elected.

Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Van der Straeten led her party's policy shift on extending the life-span of Belgium's remaining nuclear power plants.[1]

10/06/2007 – 13/06/2010: Representative (constituency of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde)

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