Ingrid Lieten

Ingrid Lieten (born 20 April 1964, Hasselt) is a Flemish politician and former Minister for Innovation, Public Investment, Media and Poverty Reduction in the Flemish Government for the Socialist Party – Different.

Ingrid Lieten
Ingrid Lieten in 2013
Flemish Minister of Innovation and Media
In office
13 July 2009 – 25 July 2014
Personal details
Born (1964-04-20) 20 April 1964
Hasselt
Political partySP.A

She studied jurisprudence at the VUB and became a lawyer at the bar association of Brussels and Hasselt. A couple of years later, she obtained a master's degree in Industrial Location and Development.

On 1 January 2002, Lieten became CEO of De Lijn, de Flemish national bus company.[1] She left the company in 2009. On July 13, 2009 Lieten was appointed Minister for Innovation, Public Investment, Media and Poverty Reduction in the Flemish Government by her party, the Socialist Party – Different (sp-a). Lieten was also Flemish vice-premier, together with N-VA politician Geert Bourgeois.

In February 2011, Lieten caused a stir in the Flemish Government, after she called her fellow ministers "insensitive caricatures made of Teflon and concrete" in a leaked email.[2][3]

Honours
gollark: Hey, I could launch a new potatOS-based service which constantly runs text-to-speech on your microphone's sound input, and uses it for research™, and pays you in arbitrary points.
gollark: Have you not considered the possibility that perhaps Google or Microsoft can do whatever you're worried about other organizations doing with your data?
gollark: Large amounts of computing power and good programmers?
gollark: Lots of money?
gollark: It's spyware in the sense of, well, being a program which spies on you.

References
  1. http://www.eutrio.be/belgium/flanders/flemish-government/ingrid-lieten/ingrid-lieten
  2. "Uit teflon en beton opgetrokken gevoelloze karikaturen is er over - Wetstraat - De Morgen" (in Dutch). Demorgen.be. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  3. "Flemish minister insults cabinet colleagues". Deredactie.be. 2011-02-18. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  4. NWS, VRT (December 10, 2014). "Vlaams Parlement reikt onderscheidingen uit aan ministers en parlementairen". vrtnws.be. Retrieved October 12, 2019.

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