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Sophie Wilmès

b. 1975

Belgian politician

Born
15 Jan 1975 · place not recorded
Part ofBelgium54 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 59 years
  1. 15 Jan 1975BornBorn
  2. 2014RoleMember of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium
  3. 2019 – 2020RoleMember of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium
  4. 2019 – 2020RolePrime Minister of Belgium
  5. 2020 – 2022RoleDeputy Prime Minister of Belgium
  6. 2020 – 2022RoleMinister of European Affairs
  7. 2020 – 2022RoleMinister of Foreign Affairs in Belgium
  8. 2022RoleMember of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium
  9. 2024RoleMember of the European Parliament

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1975 – today).

  1. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  3. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  4. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  5. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  6. 1985Schengen Agreement
  7. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  8. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  9. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  10. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  11. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  13. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  14. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  15. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  16. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  17. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  18. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  19. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  20. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  21. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  22. 20112011 Norway attacks
  23. 2011Libyan civil war
  24. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  25. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  26. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  27. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  28. 2015Paris Agreement
  29. 20182018 FIFA World Cup
  30. 2020COVID-19 pandemic
  31. 20212020 Summer Olympics
  32. 2022Russo-Ukrainian war
  33. 2023Gaza war
  34. 20242024 Summer Olympics
  35. 20262026 Iran war

Biography

Sophie Wilmès (French pronunciation: [sɔfi wilmɛs]; born 15 January 1975) is a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 2019 to 2020. She later served as minister of foreign affairs from 2020 to 2022. A member of the Reformist Movement, she is the first woman to hold either position. In May 2026, King Philip of Belgium appointed her Minister of State, an honorary title in Belgium granted for exceptional merits.

Wilmès was elected to the Chamber of Representatives in 2014, and served as budget minister in the first and second governments of Charles Michel from 2015 to 2019. In the aftermath of the 2019 Belgian federal election, Philippe of Belgium appointed Wilmès to lead a caretaker government (the Wilmès I Government) before she formed an executive government (the Wilmès II Government) in March 2020 to handle the COVID-19 pandemic.

In October 2020, she joined the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo as foreign minister and deputy prime minister. She resigned in 2022 to take care of her husband who suffered from brain cancer.

In June 2024, she was elected Member of the European Parliament, of which she is currently one of the Vice-Presidents.

Text from the Wikipedia article Sophie Wilmès, CC BY-SA 4.0

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