Yvan Ylieff

Yvan EA Ylieff (born March 8, 1941 in Verviers , Liège province ) is a former Belgian politician of the Belgian Socialist Party (BSP) and most recently the Parti Socialiste (PS), who, among other things, was minister in several governments of Prime Minister Wilfried Martens , Jean- Luc Dehaene and Guy Verhofstadt was. 1977-2018 he was mayor of the small town of Dison in the province of Liège .

Life

Teachers, mayors and members of parliament

After attending school, Ylieff studied philosophy and literature at the University of Liège and after graduating with a licentiate , worked as a teacher in his native Verviers in the 1960s . Subsequently, from 1968 to 1973 he worked first for Education Ministers Abel Dubois and Léon Hurez and then between 1973 and 1974 as an advisor to Prime Minister Edmond Leburton .

In the meantime, he began his own political career in local politics in the early 1970s and became a member of the local council and first alderman (alderman) of Andrimont in 1971 , before becoming mayor of Andrimont in 1973 .

On March 10, 1974, Ylieff was elected as a candidate of the Belgian Socialist Party for the first time to the Chamber of Deputies of Belgium and represented the Arrondissement Verviers there until April 12, 1974 .

After Andrimont was merged with Dison during the municipal reform in 1976, he became the first mayor of Dison in 1977 and has held this office since then.

Federal Minister and Government Commissioner and Minister of the French Community

On May 9, 1988, Ylieff was appointed by Prime Minister Wilfried Martens in his eighth government and held the office of Minister for National Education until the ministry was dissolved on January 16, 1989. He was the last Minister of Education in Belgium.

He was then appointed to the government of the French Community of Belgium by Prime Minister Valmy Feaux in 1989 , where he was Minister for Education and Scientific Research until the end of Feaux's term of office on January 7, 1992.

On June 23, 1995, Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene appointed him Minister for Science Policy in his second government and held this office until the end of Dehaene's term on July 12, 1999.

Ylieff then moved again to the government of the French Community and held the office of Minister for Public Works and Social Funding in the cabinet of Prime Minister Hervé Hasquin .

Thereupon he was appointed government commissioner by Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt in his first government on April 8, 2000 , and as such was attached to the Minister for Scientific Research. As part of a cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed Minister without Portfolio by Prime Minister Verhofstadt on April 5, 2003 , and as such remained attached to the Minister for Scientific Research Charles Picqué . He held this office until the end of Verhofstadt's tenure on July 12, 2003.

Ylieff, who was temporarily also chairman of the Parti Socialiste parliamentary group in the Council of the Walloon Region , was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Leopold and the First Class Civil Medal for his political merits .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Belgian Chamber of Deputies
• Entry on the homepage of the Walloon Region
• Entry on the homepage of the Walloon Parliament