Patrick Dupriez

Zakia Khattabi and Patrick Dupriez in Charleroi , March 2015

Patrick Dupriez (born February 17, 1968 in Yaoundé ) is a Belgian agricultural engineer and politician of the Ecolo party .

biography

Patrick Dupriez grew up in the first years of his life in the Cameroonian capital Yaoundé and then in Ivory Coast , where his father worked as a development worker, before going to school in Walloon Brabant . He studied agriculture at the Université catholique de Louvain and completed his thesis in Chile .

As a student he took part in Greenpeace and Amnesty International and joined the Ecolo party in the late 1980s , for which he also worked internationally. In 1988 he met the later Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa and in 1992 represented the Belgian Greens at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro .

In 2002 he was elected to the local council in Ciney and was here from 2006 to 2009 aldermen (échevin) . From 2009 to 2014 he was a member of Ecolo in the Walloon Parliament , which he chaired from 2012 to 2014, succeeding his fellow party member Emily Hoyos . In the 2014 elections, he was no longer elected to parliament. In March 2015, at the Ecolo party conference in Charleroi , he was elected to the dual leadership of Ecolo together with Zakia Khattabi with 60 percent of the vote.

Web links

• Patrick Dupriez's personal website (French)
  • CV of Patrick Dupriez (French)
• Patrick Dupriez, short biography on the Connaître la Wallonie website (French)