Bernard Clerfayt
Deputy Minister of Finance, Belgium
Born 30.12.1961
Married, 3 children (Robin, Mathilde, Elise)
Degrees
Bachelor’s and Master’s in Economics (UCL, 1986, with distinction)
Career
University assistant, Centrum voor Economische Studien (Professor Th. Peeters and P. De Grauwe), Catholic University of Louvain (1984-1986)
Intern, Research Department, International Monetary Fund in Washington (June-September 1986)
University assistant, IRES, Catholic University of Louvain (1986-1994)
Lecturer in Macroeconomics and Political Economics, at the Catholic University of Louvain (1984-1997) and at the FUCAM, Mons and Catholic University of Lille
Politics
Municipal councillor at Schaerbeek since January 1989
Brussels regional councillor since July 1989
Regional Member of Parliament (1989-June 2007)
Vice-president of the Brussels regional council (1994-1995); secretary (1995-2000)
President of the Committee for Town and Country Planning, and Land Policy (since June 1999)
Member of the council for the French community (July-September 1995)
2nd Deputy Mayor in Schaerbeek, since 5 January 1995, in charge of Town Planning, Environment, National Heritage, Communal Property and Tourism.
Mayor of Schaerbeek since 25 January 2001.
Deputy State Secretary for Finance since 20 March 2008
Other information
Founding President of the Schaerbeek Heritage (PatriS) association since 1993
President of the Co-operative Society of Schaerbeek Tenants (1995-2001)
Administrator of the SA-M-Village (business centre)
