Stephanie D'Hose (born 1 June 1981) is a
Belgian
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politician who has been
President of the Senate
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The senate president often ranks high in a jurisdiction's succession for its top executive office: for e ...
since October 2020.
Early life and education
D'Hose was born in
Roeselare
Roeselare (; french: Roulers, ; West Flemish: ''Roeseloare'') is a Belgian city and municipality in the Flemish province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Roeselare proper and the towns of Beveren, Oekene and Rumbeke.
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on 1 June 1981. Her parents were self employed.
[ She has a Licentiate in political science from the ]University of Ghent
Ghent University ( nl, Universiteit Gent, abbreviated as UGent) is a public research university located in Ghent, Belgium.
Established before the state of Belgium itself, the university was founded by the Dutch King William I in 1817, when the ...
.
Career
D'Hose was a parliamentary assistant from 2009–2014 and is Deputy Private Secretary to Sven Gatz
Sven Gatz (born 6 May 1967 in Sint-Agatha-Berchem) is a Flemish Open Vld politician and the current Brussels Minister of Finance, Budget, Civil Service and Multilingualism in the government of the Brussels-Capital Region.
From 1999 to 2011 he wa ...
.[
She has been a City Councillor in ]Ghent
Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in ...
since 2013 and was elected to the Flemish Parliament
The Flemish Parliament (Dutch: , formerly called Flemish Council or ''Vlaamse Raad'') constitutes the legislative power in Flanders for matters which fall within the competence of Flanders, both as a geographic region and as a cultural communi ...
on 26 May 2019.[
D'Hose was appointed to the ]Belgian Federal Parliament
The Federal Parliament is the bicameral parliament of Belgium. It consists of the Chamber of Representatives (Dutch: , french: Chambre des Représentants, german: Abgeordnetenkammer) and the Senate (Dutch: , french: Sénat, german: Senat). It sit ...
for Open VLD
french: Libéraux et démocrates flamands ouverts
, abbreviation = Open Vld
, logo =
, leader1_title = President
, leader1_name = Egbert Lachaert
, foundation = 1992 (VLD)2007 (Open Vld)
, predecessor = Pa ...
on 4 July 2019, and appointed to the Senate.[ In the division of powers within the ]Alexander De Croo
Alexander De Croo (born 3 November 1975) is a Belgian politician and businessman who has served as the prime minister of Belgium since October 2020.
De Croo was born in Vilvoorde, Flemish Brabant, and studied business engineering at the Vrije ...
government, Open VLD was given the Senate presidency and D'Hose was nominated for the role on 13 October 2020. At 39, she became the youngest person to hold the position. Later that month she became seriously ill with a blood infection
Bloodstream infections (BSIs), which include bacteremias when the infections are bacterial and fungemias when the infections are fungal, are infections present in the blood. Blood is normally a sterile environment, so the detection of microbe ...
and was confined to bed. She tested negative for COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December ...
. In January 2022, while she was president of the senate, D'Hose spoke in favour of the abolition of the institution.
Personal life
D'Hose is a vegetarian
Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects, and the flesh of any other animal). It may also include abstaining from eating all by-products of animal slaughter.
Vegetarianism m ...
. She lives with her partner Diederik Pauwelijn.
References
External links
Official website
See also
* List of members of the Senate of Belgium, 2019–24
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Living people
1981 births
People from Roeselare
Ghent University alumni
Members of the Flemish Parliament
Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten politicians
21st-century Belgian women politicians
21st-century Belgian politicians
Women members of the Senate (Belgium)
Presidents of the Senate (Belgium)
Women legislative speakers
Belgian senators of the 57th legislature