Philippe Henry

Philippe Henry (born 23 April 1971) is a Belgian politician.

Biography

Henry was born in Charleroi. He attended University of Liège, becoming the president of the student council, served as student delegate from the University of Liège and the head of Federation of Francophone students in 1994–1995.[1][2]

In 1995, he graduated with a degree in civil engineering. He finished a master's degree in management in 1997. He worked as a researcher from 1995 to 1999.

He joined the Ecolo party in 1999 and was elected a regional and community member of parliament in 1999 and stayed until 2004.

He served as town councilor in Sprimont and Political Director of Ecolo.

On 16 July 2009, he became the Walloon Minister for the Environment, Spatial Planning, mobility, transportation, and brownfield sites within the Walloon Government under the second term of Minister-President Rudy Demotte. Since 2014, Henry also serves as a Senator.[3]

gollark: Idea; outdo them all by including 100 audio tracks, 99 of which are just rickrolls.
gollark: Who would make such an accursed file? In any case I think it lets you select operations to do on specific streams.
gollark: Oh, and Go's "simple"ness is mostly just simple-looking but inconsistent and arbitrary half the time.
gollark: There's the whole incredibly stupid monotonic time thing.
gollark: Poor type-and-otherwise safety in many OS interactions, moronically stupid hacks over sane code...

References
  1. "Jeunesse: Philippe Henry Quitte le Cjef" (in French). Le Soir. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  2. "Une Grande Manif Etudiante, La Semaine Prochaine" (in French). Le Soir. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  3. "Philippe Henry". Ecolo. Retrieved 2016-08-24.


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