Alexander De Croo

Alexander De Croo
De Croo in 2023
Prime Minister of Belgium
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 October 2020
Monarch	Philippe
Deputy	See list Vincent Van Peteghem Georges Gilkinet Petra De Sutter Sophie Wilmès Vincent Van Quickenborne Pierre-Yves Dermagne Frank Vandenbroucke David Clarinval
Preceded by	Sophie Wilmès
Minister of Finance
In office 9 December 2018 – 1 October 2020
Prime Minister	Charles Michel Sophie Wilmès
Preceded by	Johan Van Overtveldt
Succeeded by	Vincent Van Peteghem
Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium
In office 22 October 2012 – 1 October 2020
Prime Minister	Elio Di Rupo Charles Michel Sophie Wilmès
Preceded by	Vincent Van Quickenborne
Succeeded by	Vincent Van Quickenborne
Minister of Pensions
In office 22 October 2012 – 11 October 2014
Prime Minister	Elio Di Rupo
Preceded by	Vincent Van Quickenborne
Succeeded by	Daniel Bacquelaine
Leader of the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats
In office 12 December 2009 – 22 October 2012
Deputy	Vincent Van Quickenborne Patricia Ceysens
Preceded by	Guy Verhofstadt (Acting)
Succeeded by	Guy Verhofstadt (Acting)
Minister of Development Cooperation
In office 11 October 2014 – 1 October 2020
Prime Minister	Charles Michel Sophie Wilmès
Preceded by	Jean-Pascal Labille [fr]
Personal details
Born	(1975-11-03) 3 November 1975 (age 48) Vilvoorde, Flanders, Belgium
Political party	Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats
Spouse	Annik Penders
Children	2
Education	Vrije Universiteit Brussel (MSc) Northwestern University (MBA)
Website	www.alexanderdecroo.be

Alexander De Croo (Dutch: [aːlɛkˈsɑndər də ˈkroː]; born 3 November 1975) is a Belgian politician and businessman who is the prime minister of Belgium. He assumed office in October 2020 and is currently acting in a demissionary capacity. De Croo was born in Vilvoorde, Flemish Brabant, and studied business engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel before attaining an MBA at Northwestern University in the United States. He worked for Boston Consulting Group before starting his own company, Darts-ip, in 2006. De Croo became involved with the Belgian political party Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten (Open VLD), of which he was chairman from 2009 to 2012. From 2012 to 2020, De Croo served in the governments of Elio Di Rupo, Charles Michel, and Sophie Wilmès as a deputy prime minister of Belgium.

During his tenure as deputy prime minister he served as the Minister of Pensions from 2012 to 2014, as Minister of Development Cooperation from 2014 to 2020, and as Minister of Finance from 2018 to 2020. On 1 October 2020, over a year after the 2019 federal elections, the De Croo Government was formed to replace Wilmès' minority government, with De Croo as prime minister.

After the 2024 Belgian federal election, De Croo and his party suffered a major electoral defeat. De Croo announced his resignation on June 9, 2024. De Croo will remain as caretaker prime minister until a new coalition is formed.^[1][2]