Eliane Tillieux (born 1966) is a Belgian

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politician from

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(

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) and the first woman to serve as president of the

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Early life and education

Tillieux was born in Namur on 25 April 1966 and in 1989 graduated from the Institut Supérieur de Traducteurs et Interprètes de Bruxelles (now a department of Université Libre de Bruxelles). She also obtained an accountancy certificate from the Institut d'Enseignement Commercial de Namur (1992) and graduated

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from the

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(1993). She worked as a linguist in the financial sector and as a manager in the Société Wallonne de Distribution d'Eau, where she advanced to be head of the commercial division's customer service department before resigning in 2004 to enter politics full-time.

Political career

From 2000 to 2004 Tillieux was a provincial councillor for the

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. She sat in the regional

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from 2004 to 2009, and served in the

Walloon Government The Walloon Government (french: Gouvernement wallon) or Government of Wallonia (french: Gouvernement de Wallonie) is the executive branch of Wallonia, and it is part of one of the six main governments of Belgium. It sits in Namur, where the Parli ...

headed by

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from 2009 to 2014 as Minister for Social Action, Health and Equal Opportunities. She was the only woman of ministerial rank in Demotte's government. She became minister of Employment and Training in the Walloon Government headed by

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from 2014 to 2017, again as the only female minister. In the

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(26 May) Tillieux was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives. The following 30 September 2020 she became the Socialist Party's candidate as president of the chamber, being sworn in on 13 October 2020.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tillieux, Eliane 1966 births Living people People from Namur (city) 21st-century Belgian politicians Socialist Party (Belgium) politicians Presidents of the Chamber of Representatives (Belgium) Women legislative speakers