Alexander De Croo

Alexander De Croo is Deputy Prime Minister for Open VLD and Minister of Development Cooperation, Digital Agenda, Telecom and Postal Services in the Michel I Government. As Minister of Development Cooperation, he focuses on strengthening human rights and promoting local economic growth in the partner countries. The Digital Agenda, Telecom and Postal Services portfolio focuses on the maximisation of the economic potential of the digital economy.

On 20 November 2012, Alexander De Croo took the oath as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Pensions in the presence of H.M. King Albert II. He held this position until 2014. In Pensions, he completed the first pension reform package since a long time, and stood at the cradle of the 2020-2040 Pension Reform Commission. The reform proposals prepared by the 2020-2040 Pension Reform Commission form the basis of the pension reforms introduced by the Michel I Government.

Graduated in Business Engineering, Alexander De Croo completed an MBA at the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) in Chicago (United States), in 2004. Between 1999 and 2006, he was employed as a strategy consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, one of the leading management consulting firms worldwide. In 2006, he founded his own company: Darts-IP, a consulting company in the field of intellectual property rights, which today operates throughout the world.