Melchior Wathelet Jr.

Melchior Wathelet
Melchior Wathelet (January 2014)
Minister of the Interior
In office 22 July 2014 – 11 October 2014
Prime Minister	Elio Di Rupo
Preceded by	Joëlle Milquet
Succeeded by	Jan Jambon
Secretary of State of Environment, Energy, Mobility and Institutional Reforms
In office 6 December 2010 – 22 July 2014
Prime Minister	Elio Di Rupo
Preceded by	Paul Magnette (Environment and Energy) Didier Reynders (Institutional Reforms)
Succeeded by	Catherine Fonck
Personal details
Born	(1977-09-30) 30 September 1977 (age 46) Verviers, Belgium
Political party	Humanist Democratic Centre
Alma mater	Catholic University of Louvain University of Southampton
Website	Official website

Melchior Wathelet (born 30 September 1977 in Verviers) is a Belgian politician, Secretary of State of Environment, Energy, Mobility and Institutional Reforms, and member of the Centre démocrate humaniste (cdH).^[1] His father is Melchior Wathelet. He followed part of his secondary education in Dutch at a school in Bilzen, Limburg. After a degree in law from the Catholic University of Louvain and a Master of European Law from the University of Southampton, he became lawyer at the Bar association of Liège in 2002.

He started his political career in 2003,^[1] when he was elected as member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives where he quickly became group member for his party and second vice-president of the cdH.

He became secretary of state in charge of the budget in the Leterme II Government, and kept this charge in the Van Rompuy I Government and the Leterme II Government.^[1]

He became secretary of state in charge of Environment, Energy and Mobility in the Di Rupo I Government in 2010. After the 2014 elections on 22 July 2014 Joelle Milquet resigned to become minister of Lower education and Culture in the Government of the French Community. She was replaced as Deputy-Prime Minister and Minister of the interior by Wathelet.^[2]