page_title: Steven Vanackere
section_title: Academic career
hierarchical_section_title: Steven Vanackere / Academic career
caption_attribution_description: DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 25JAN13 - Steven Vanackere, Minister of Finance of Belgium makes a point during the session 'Open forum: Eurozone - Solidarity or Domination?' at the Annual Meeting 2013 of the World Economic Forum at the Swiss alpine high school in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2013. . . Copyright by World Economic Forum. . swiss-image.ch/Photo Michael Wuertenberg
context_page_description: Steven Vanackere, is a Belgian politician from Flanders and member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party. He held the portfolios of Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Institutional Reform in the Leterme II government. He is the son of Leo Vanackere, who, following a political career as a Member of the Chamber of Representatives and the Senate of Belgium, became the Provincial Governor of West-Flanders in 1979. His grandfather, Remi Wallays, had also been a senator and had been a former Mayor of Wevelgem.
  On 7 January 2014, CD&V designated Steven Vanackere as its third-placed candidate, behind serving MEPs Marianne Thyssen and Ivo Belet, on its list for the European Parliament elections in May 2014.
context_section_description: Steven Vanackere received his secondary education at the Sint-Albertuscollege in Haasrode, run by the Carmelite Friars, where he studied Latin-Mathematics. He graduated as Master of Laws from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1987 and obtained his Master's of Economic Sciences at the same university, one year later. In 1985, Steven Vanackere passed the (Bachelor's) degree in political science. During the academic year of 1986-1987, he served as President of the Law Students’ Association and the Vlaams Rechtsgenootschap (Flemish Law Society) in Leuven.
caption: Vanackere during the WEF 2013
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