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Johan Van Overtveldt
Johan Van Overtveldt
Member of the European Parliament; for Belgium
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2 July 2019
Minister of Finance
	In office; 11 October 2014 – 9 December 2018
Prime Minister	Charles Michel
Preceded by	Koen Geens
Succeeded by	Alexander De Croo
Personal details
Born	24 August 1955 (age 69); Mortsel, Belgium
Political party	New Flemish Alliance (2013–present)
Alma mater	Saint Ignatius University Centre

Johan Van Overtveldt (born 24 August 1955) is a Belgian journalist and politician of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA). He served as Minister of Finance of Belgium from 2014 until 2018. He is currently a Member of the European Parliament since July 2024, where is serves as chair of the Budgetary committee.^[1]

Career

He was the chief editor of Trends from 2010 to 2013 and chief editor of Knack from 2011 to 2012.^{[citation needed]}

In 2012 he was awarded the Prize for Liberty by the Flemish classical-liberal think tank Libera!.

Political career

In November 2013 Van Overtveldt switched over to politics, becoming a member of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA). As main N-VA candidate for the 2014 European Parliament elections, he was elected as a member of the European Parliament.

Following the formation of the Michel Government in October 2014, Van Overtveldt became Minister of Finance in the government of Prime Minister Charles Michel; Sander Loones succeeded him as member of the European Parliament.

Since the 2019 elections, Van Overtveldt has been a member of the European Parliament, where he has been chairing the Parliament's Committee on Budgets. In addition, he is a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. In this capacity, he is the Parliament's rapporteur on the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021–2027.^[2]

Van Overtveldt was re-elected in May 2024.

Other activities

European Union organizations

European Investment Bank (EIB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2014-2018)^[3]
European Stability Mechanism, Member of the Board of Governors (2014-2018)^[4]

International organizations

African Development Bank (AfDB), Ex-Officio Alternate Member of the Board of Governors (2014-2018)^[5]
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2014-2018)
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2014-2018)^[6]
Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2014-2018)
International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ex-Officio Alternate Member of the Board of Governors (2014-2018)^[7]
Joint World Bank-IMF Development Committee, Member (2014-2018)^[8]
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), World Bank Group, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2014-2018)^[9]
World Bank, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2014-2018)^[10]

Publications

Het einde van de Euro^[11]
Maandag geen economie meer?^[12]
The Chicago School: How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business^[13]
Bernanke's test^[14]